Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nevertheless Mr. Wright's discontent with the superficial attitude towards theology which seems to prevail in the "Theological" School and at Harvard generally, is only too well justified. One would gather, from the theological lectures in History 57 that the religious formulations of our culture are based entirely on ignorance and an almost deliberate perversity. But to dwell on the intellectual absurdity of a theological doctrine is as irrelevant, to an understanding either of the doctrine itself or of religion in general, as ridicule of the linear distortions of El Greco or Diego Ribera would be to an understandings...
This year Harvard is host to the annual meeting of Presidents of prominent New England colleges. It is the purpose of this gathering to discuss informally many aspect of modern universities, and it is fit that the meeting should be at Harvard now. The whole organization of the college is in transition, but the actual physical shaping of the House Plan is present. Although only hazy ideas can be formed about particulars, the visiting presidents and professors will be able to gather a general conception of its frame. They will examine and discuss with informal freedom; and Harvard may benefit...
...Over a network of 150 radio stations, last week President Hoover opened a five-week campaign to gather funds into the nation's community chests, to keep some 6,000,000 jobless from starving this winter. Said he: "No Governmental action, no economic doctrine, no economic plan or project can replace that God-im-posed responsibility of the individual man and woman to their neighbors...
...experiment which may have an unusual significance in the teaching of modern languages is being tried at the Union. Two special tables, one with a French and the other with a German waitress where only French and German are spoken has been set aside. Students interested in either language gather regularly to eat together and talk...
...professions, literature is roomy at the top. To that top few women have aspired; fewer still in their own lifetime have arrived. This generation has had its fair share of authoresses who were first-class writers: the late Elinor Wylie and Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Willa Gather, Colette, Virginia Woolf. Of this little list Virginia Woolf stands preeminent. Never a popular writer, always dangerously clever, she writes not as one enameling teacups but as one embroidering a theme; her theme is life...