Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON is in perfect agreement with the proposals in these first six resolutions. It advocates less restrictive dogma on the part of the club open house system, and believes that the Committee has undertaken the right methods of correcting the situation which now prevails and which is unpopular with many club members who feel bound by law in such a manner that they have no privilege of inviting friends outside their club in for meals. This is, however, a matter entirely for each club--as the Committee has pointed out--and the sole merit, as far as the university...
Personally I am not perturbed over the losses of such souls or concerned about infractions of irrational religious dogma; but having a lively intellectual curiosity, I am interested as to why the idea of birth control should be deemed unchristian and unethical in various quarters...
...Roman Catholic Church (Pope Leo XIII): "It is not lawful for the State ... to disregard all religious duties or to hold in equal favor different kinds of religion"; the Supreme Court of the U. S. has stated that our "law is committed to the support of no dogma, the establishment of no sect." On marriage and divorce, U, S. law and Catholic law vary widely...
...taken a definitely "bone-dry" stand on Prohibition. If, there is to be any Wet parade, Democrats must organize it, the most available drummer-boy being Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. Governors Smith of New York and Ritchie of Maryland are ardent foes of the Anti-Saloon League dogma, but are not so ready to exorcise it with tom-toms...
...Roman Catholic dogma of the ' Immaculate Conception" (of Mary) was defined as "of faith" as late as 1854 by Pope Pius IX in the Papal Bull "Ineffabilis Deus." It maintains that, while Mary was conceived in the manner common to all human beings, the Lord made her immaculate at the moment of conception; in this way her absolute sinlessness was provided...