Word: faith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ended his speech by saying: "I formed one of the most valued friendships of my life with a son of the Jewish faith."* Sandwiched between was the declaration for which the whole U. S. had been waiting...
...learn to pray until some overwhclming experience forces us to our knees, is applicable to many of us in this age which considers itself so self-sufficient. Even more significant is the common acceptance of the past as hopeless and the future as not worth worrying over. The faith and determination that move mountains are conspicuous in their absence, now that man has learned so many handy aids to comfortable living...
...introduction to a systematically governed debate on religious problems, personal and universal, undergraduates are now given an unpreccedented chance to let off steam to some effect. Insted of consistently avoiding these questions, Harvardmen may, if they will, take a vital interest in trying to understand and evaluate the faith of their fathers. As an instrument reminding students that there is a spiritual side of life, the new series of lectures has already made great strides...
...adjustments of the college will be effected with equal case, for Dr. Dennett's friend and successor is in full sympathy with the fundamental program already under way, and contemplates no interruption in administrative continuity. An able man has been succeeded by a capable exponent of the the same faith...
Lest his listeners think that in advocating religion he was criticizing them, Dean Pound was quick to add that he has "never lost faith in the religious groundings of the younger generation." Urging them to hold fast to these ideas, he warned against "those fashionable philosophies of life" that would abandon religion...