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...Conference itself is held yearly under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. and is intended to provide an opportunity for college men to spend a few days out of their summer vacation in close association with leaders in the religious world. This year, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, who has lectured frequently at the University, J. Stitt Wilson, Henry S. Coffin, and other prominent divines will be in attendance at the Conference...
...Dean proceeded to New Haven, began the Lyman Beecher Lectures to the Yale Divinity School. Dr. Harry E. Fosdick was last year's Beecher lecturer...
Among the many prominent national figures announced as speakers are included J. H. Scattergood '97, G. Sherwood Eddy, Harry E. Fosdick, John R. Mott, A. Ray Petty, J. Stitt Wilson, Charles R. Brown, Henry Sloane Coffin, Charles Taft, Ralph Harlow, William Cochran, and J. T. Stocking...
...recent years has appealed to Harvard quite so much as Dr. Fosdick. His powerful and open treatment of subjects which have too long been obscured by superstition, ceremonialism, and sheer mummery, appeals to the critically-minded undergraduate. There is a feeling about Fosdick's work that he preaches nothing that he does not believe. He has been received at the University with an enthusiasm which perhaps has added to the sombre conviction that Harvard is a college of atheists...
...such a great thinker, the Presbyterian Church doubtless feels that is safe-guarding public morals. What it has really done is to shut out the humanizing effect of unhampered religious thinking, binding the congregations closer and closer to the worn out dongmas of past centuries. Right or wrong, Dr. Fosdick's has been a new voice in a land of monotones...