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...superb translation of Papini's "Life of Christ" and for a time that was in the foreground. The turmoil started by the bishops in Texas found an echo in the college world after the Indianapolis Conference last December, at which it was discovered again that Harvard is a perfectly godless place; and lot of people are now doing themselves good (probably) by praying for us. Altogether quite a conglomeration of heterodox religious ideas have been competing for believers...
...implication was that the Yale students were at least as "godless," as those of Harvard, and no more of them derived religious benefit under the compulsory chapel system than of the Harvard students under the voluntary system...
Whether college chapel should be compulsory or not is a question that seems likely to be discussed anew because of statements just made by the Rev. Edward C. Moore, President of the Harvard Board of Preachers. He was expressing something like resentment at the charge that Harvard was "godless" because its students can attend the morning exercises in chapel or not, as they please, and but few of them do go. That he said, was a better state of affairs than the one existing at Yale, where the chapel attendance is large, because it is obligatory and absence is penalized...
...then all that inward reflection which hopes to place us in harmony with the god of things as they are, all that secret communion with our better selves, and all that conscious adherence to the spirit of great teachers, such as the Nazarene, must be considered devices of the "godless". Just when does a man, and collectively, a university become "godless...
...cannot agree with you, Mr. Editor, that Harvard is unmoral or even indifferent. Nor can I agree with my friend Mr. McCubbin that Harvard is put to shame by the prayers of other colleges. Every center of thought has its group of atheists, who, strictly speaking, may be termed "godless". It might be interesting to us, and certainly reassuring to our brethren of the Middle West, if we had a third referendum to determine exactly how many men are atheists. As for the rank and file of Harvard men, so far as my observation of them has gone, I believe...