Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paper by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This paper, while it contained nothing new, made a distinction, sharply sustained by later speakers, between psychic research and the spiritist movement. Psychic research was described by Sir Arthur as "a sort of super-materialism;" the spiritist movement as an effort "to support Faith by actual, provable fact." He, of course, was concerned chiefly with the movement. For his own claim upon public consideration the creator of "Sherlock Holmes" mentioned his medical training and the fact "that as a public man of affairs I have never shown myself to be wild or unreasonable." Then...
...full operation. Down in North Carolina on the rolling Piedmont soil of Durham Duke University is rising. Here in the Middle West, Antioch College has been reborn upon a plan startingly original and appealing in many ways. The University of Wisconsin gives the opportunity to test out the faith of Professor Meiklejohn in the possibility of cultural education upon a new plan. A further experiment not yet begun is the plan of a college without trustees or president and administered on liberal and democratic terms. Tentative efforts have already been made for its founding. In the West the old Claremont...
...life which can so helpfully influence political life. Yet the burden of solving the problem of this great democracy must fall upon the shoulders of someone. Upon the shoulders of whom ought they most justifiably fall than upon the college graduate especially in a time like the present when faith in democracy as a form of political organization is apparently waning, not in dictator governed countries like Italy, Spain, Greece and Russia, but apparently in our own country. However, this desideratum will not be attained until a more serious spirit animates the life of the college and more generous attention...
...America is a hard place in which to do good teaching, we must be fair and admit that America intends to support teaching and does so with great enthusiasm. The difficulty is not one of intention, but one of understanding. America has a great belief in education; it has faith in education and wants it, but just what it is that it wants is not very clear. Our typical expression is "Culture or bust". Here it is "understanding or bust", and I think that we ought to look at both sides of this situation. America is determined to have education...
February 13: "Is Immortality Necessary" by Dr. Frederick Palmer '69, the editor of the Harvard "Theological Review"; on February 20, "Philosophy of Religion" by Professor James H. Woods '87, chairman of the Department of Philosophy; February '27, Faith and Worship" by Professor James B. Pratt '99, professor of Philosophy at Williams; March 6, Social Teachings of Jesus" by Professor Francis G. Peabody '69, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Emeritus; March 13. "Christian Faith and the Historic Jesus" by Professor D. C. Macintosh, Dwighs professor of Theology at Yale; March 20, "Religious Reflections" by Bishop William Lawronoes...