Word: godless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard men will learn with conscious pride that every day thirteen western colleges send up thirteen generous prayers for this "godless university". Of course, Harvard has always gloried in being godless has even taken pains, perhaps, to appear just a bit more godless than she really is but this solicitude on the part of her sister universities may be considered as a crowning achievement...
...pleasure out of cigarette-smoking are those who say it doesn't do any harm. Those who say Harvard isn't irreligious miss the whole point. Nothing is more entertaining than shocking the casual observer or the ignorant outsider, and the well-meaning people who make excuses for "godless Harvard" and try to point out that it really isn't godless at all simply spoil...
...Christian associations may pray all they want for 'godless' Harvard," said the Reverend Edward Caldwell Moore, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Chairman of the Board of Preachers when told yesterday that such was the report. "I am inclined to be amused at the whole affair...
...accusation of Harvard indifference has been so bandied about since time immemorial that it has achieved almost a national reputation. Exclusive, unfriendly, and Bourbon, Harvard in the eyes of its critics is goodless and very nearly Godless...
...gone, not only to Cambridge, but to Emmanuel College in particular. And having seen the evils of prescribed religious exercises, John Harvard omitted any such prescription in the bequest upon which Harvard College was founded. The alarm which many of the colonists felt at the thought of this "godless university" resulted in the foundation of Yale, intended to pour forth a stream of "untainted Calvinists". Since that time, according to a visiting Englishman of the nineteenth century, Yale men have always been horrified by the irreverence of Cambridge, while Harvard men inevitably regard the pious Elis as praying hypocrites...