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...since the "Godless Harvard" excitement subsided have there been so many communications on any single topic as have been aroused recently on the question of pacifism and the proposed abolition of the Military Science Department at Harvard. Letters, many of considerable merit, have been arriving in large quantities, and in view of the various shades of opinion expressed and the intelligent interest displayed it seems almost unavoidable that some comment should be made...
...over the world, public morality has been progressing downward. The world must have a moral foundation and that foundation can only be found in religion. Take away religion and the whole moral structure falls. Today we have lost vital religion and therefore we have lost morality. Evolutionary philosophy is godless...
...matter," he went on, "for the great majority of schools do not require their teachers to stress religion. All that is asked of them is that they treat religion with a general decency. But by this I do not mean that the public schools are in any way godless...
Waiving the question of whether Harvard is foodless as well as Godless, there yet remains the enigma of why Memorial Hall with good food (according to the "Visiting Committee of Ladies and the Dining Hall Committee") and the lowest rates in Cambridge should be degenerating so rapidly into "innocuous dissuetude." The Comptroller in his circular letter to undergraduates shows himself nonplussed at this state of affairs and requests suggestions and criticisms...
...religion: There is great sense in the good old Sanskrit injunction that says: "Silance is victory where ten Buddhists are zealously preaching and promoting their religion." The same could be said of almost every other religion including Hinduism or Christianity. However, being asked several times by the so called "godless" Harvard men to give a frank expression to the Hindu attitude toward all missionary religions, I am undertaking the task and do hope it will be received in all fairness and intellectual honesty with which it is being discharged...