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Permit me, at this juncture of our inquiry into the godlessness of Harvard, to ask just what we mean by "godless". If Harvard is "godless" now, when, if ever, was it "godly" and what are the ear-marks of "godliness"? Do ablution, application of the Urim and Thummin, the wearing of phylacteries, and rhythmic beating upon the breast constitute "godliness"? Perhaps "godliness" is synonymous with regular attendance upon a house of worship. Or "godliness" may be consequent upon acceptance of a creed, say the Athanasian or its antithesis, the Nicene; perhaps even upon subscription to some system of dogma devised...
...godliness" tantamount to a Christian mode of life? If so, then whose interpretation of Christianity? How can that "godliness" include the Buddhist, the Jew, or the Confucianist within our gates. Frankly, are these groups "godless"? And again, if "godliness" demands subscription to a trinitarian theism, all monotheists must be "godless". Pantheists of any sort, by such a criterion, are hopelessly "godless...
...that Mr. Phillips used the right word--I had not seen it as a matter of intelligence. Really, I think, the situation quite balances. The students of thirteen colleges gathered at Indianapolis had the pleasure of satisfying their mystical natures and Christian enthusiasm in an effort to bring "godless" Harvard by prayer into a similarly kneeling posture. On the other hand Professor Moore and Harvard are honestly amused. Surely nothing is lost and each group has enjoyed a pleasant moment...
...twentieth century we consider all this prayer mongery ridiculous. And that pious souls from the thirteen colleges in the Middle west should send solemn prayers to "Godless Harvard" in carload consignments, in bales and bundles, like free sample packages of Post Toasties, seems to me scarcely less...
That the members of these colleges should get down on their knees each day in prayer for "Godless Harvard" I resent as a piece of unwarrantable impudence,--of sanctimonious smugness,--of orthodox whipper-snappery. To me their prayers sound strangely like the prayers of that Pharisee, who "went up into the temple to pray" and stood, saying "God, I thank the I am not as other men are." W. J. NICHOLS...