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...timely article on "Godless Harvard" issued as the sentiment of Professor E. C. Moore on our religious life places before us an all too prevalent attitude of the public which must be recognized...
Harvard is not Godless at heart, but rather camouflages with a cloak of godless-appearing Harvard Indifference a Christian spirit. As we have grown, and discarded other antiquated ideas, so should we now lay aside this attitude of indifference assumed when "Harvard had progresed toward godlessness and heterodoxy...
...article in yesterday's CRIMSON, Professor E. C. Moore declared that he was "inclined to be amused" at the statement that other Christian Associations pray for Harvard. To me, the fact that we have the reputation of being "godless", is not a subject for amusement, and I cannot understand the attitude of any Christian Harvard man to whom it is amusing. Prayer, regardless of all other theories, is at least an attitude of deep thought. For us to be amused that we are the object of serious thought of intelligent men, is not only to insult their intelligence...
Furthermore, I do not believe that it is because we do not have compulsory chapel, that we have the reputation of being "godless". Perhaps other college Christian associations are interested not that we don't compel men to go to chapel, but that our men do not go to chapel. Questions of our voluntary chapel, of our individual thinking, and of our "rational religion" may not be so dominant in their minds as the question of our actual religious life. Not what our rules are, but how we carry them out, determines the way in which other colleges regard...
...like standardization of ideas and ideals. And we have no compulsory chapel. These things give other colleges the impression that we are 'godless.' We thank them for praying for us; but we call our conception higher...