Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...general participation of students in various games is a difficult thing to bring about. A Le Gore, a Mahan, a Howard Miller, a Hobey Baker, does more to stimulate the average student to emulate the example of these stars in ways however humble than any amount of theoretical dogma designed to show that athletic exercise in the open air is good for mind and body. --LAWRENCE PERRY, IN THE NEW YORK EVENING POST...
...emphasis is more than ever on the things which unite, less than ever on the things which divide. Not yet have the protagonists of unity reached their goal. But the churches are more joined in co-operation and mutual helpfulness than was ever possible in the days of rigid dogma and unyielding denominational pride. It will be difficult for the Harvard Divinity School to celebrate its own work without at the same time celebrating these advantages toward what Dr. A. C. McGiffert, in summing up the aims of the Christian faith, recently called "the control of all human relationships...
...sense of the cessation of combat, still less, of a cosmopolitanism which asks that you shall, in obedience to some abstract ideal of instinctive or intuitive origin, sacrifice national preferences and characteristics, or even prejudices. Indeed, I am not urging any cut-and-dried political doctrine or dogma at all. What I want to urge is the open-minded consideration of certain facts and occurrences, the significance of which is for the most part ignored, although they must profoundly affect principles of action between men that cover the whole field of human society, affect to some extent the form...
...younger generation irreligious? Doubtless the external forms of worship are dying out, and along with them is passing away the pious belief in arbitrary dogma. But do these symptoms really signify that science and philosophy are taking the place of religion? Do they not rather denote a change in the outward manifestations of religious spirit, while this very spirit itself remains unimpaired? The instinctive belief in an Unknowable is deep-rooted in every human being. In an unconscious way even the most skeptical scientist is religious...
...executive recently remarked, "he must either have a boss who is a brute, or be the slave to an idea which bosses him like a brute." Thus in a few words is stated the be-all and end-all of the disciplinarian's creed. It was something of this dogma which stood behind Dean Randall's remarkably outspoken address made recently to the alumni of Brown University. "Where Colleges Fail to Educate" was the subject which he chose, and it gave him a dozen opportunities to point the failures of our educational system. "Colleges lay too little stress upon punctuality...