Word: cults
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have the same appeal in the small world of Harvard. A man should never be condemned for possessing ideas that may differ from the set standard. Mr. Sunday would be heard here with widespread interest because his thoughts are different, and not because he represents this or that religious cult...
...Rabindranath Tagore, the noted Indian poet, musician, educator and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1913, will speak at Tremont Temple, Boston, tonight. The subject of his lecture will be "The Cult of Nationalism." Tagore has been acclaimed by many as the greatest living poet. His writings reflect the romantic spirit of the East, and most of his poems are written to a weird moaning Rengali music, which he himself composes. He has translated many of his own works, among them his short stories in the writing of which many critics claint his greatest genius lies. Tickets ranging...
...representative of a civilization which has in the past contributed much to the wisdom of the world Sir Rabindranath Tagore, now on a visit to this country, should be of particular interest to Americans. His lecture tonight at Tremont Temple on "The Cult of Nationalism" presents a characteristically Eastern solution of the problem of world- peace by the abolition of all nationalistic principles. Contemporary American opinion looks to its solution by means of the recognition and employment of national instincts through the medium of some organization such as the much- talked-of "League to Enforce Peace...
What was announced as the beginning of a nation-wide movement against the "cult of preparedness" which has sweeping the country was launched at Washington yesterday with the formation of the Anti-Militarism Committee which has opened headquarters in Washington and is said to be in close conference with the anti-preparedness minority in both the Senate and the House. It characterizes itself as a movement to "pretest against the attempts to stampede this nation into the adoption of a dangerous program of military and naval expansion...
...awarded to Guilford Bevil Reed 3G., of Berwick, N. S., for an essay entitled "Studies in Plant Diseases"; in graduate group III, foreign languages literatures, ancient and modern, the prize of $200 was awarded to William Odell Shepard 1G., of Los Angeles, Cal., for an essay entitled "The Cult of Solitude in French Romantic Literature...