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...Lincoln visited this godless spot...
...Godless, irreligious even atheistic, are terms of reproach at which the Harvard student of today merely shrugs his shoulder. They have been used too long and too often. Yet there are excellent reasons for saying that such opinions are quite illfounded and false When a truly worth-while preacher appears, the Chapel can not contain the crowds that throng to hear him. An average attendance of almost 300 men at an optional course on religion, held at a none too convenient time in a stuffy hall, is a record of which the colleges who are reported to be praying...
...parsons who set up the college at New Haven did not foresee that it was destined to have a theatre of its own and a professor of playwriting and play-acting--and imported, at that, from Harvard. Not even "the abominable habit of shaving on the Sabbath" or "the godless levity of kissing one's wife on the Lord's Day" could inspire such racy and colorful English. But in a measure the deficiency is supplied. Racy and colorful English is copiously emitted at Harvard. There is occasion for philosophy of the kind that consoled Barrett Wendell under the stress...
...irony capable of confounding all coiners of catch phrases that religious discussion should occupy a prominent place at Harvard, often called "godless" to imply its apathy to such matters. Quite the contrary to "godless", Harvard can not rest with a religious ideal in conflict with secular knowledge. The period is one of transition, in which every student decides for himself whether in his case...
...Manhattan, a Methodist-Epis- copal bishop of Parkersburg, W. Va., landed after touring England, France, Holland, Belgium. Said he: "They are a godless people for the most part, particularly in France, which has always been the heart of infidelism. Instead of being in church on Sunday, they are out on picnics or riding in automobiles seeking pleasure...