Word: irreligion
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...present number to admit that there are some good touches among the wealth of the commonplace. "Phrases from Novels" (p. 200), the dernier cri of the Freshman's welcome home (p. 206), the limerick about the Freshman's quandary at Boston dances (p. 208), the bit about Harvard irreligion (p. 209), make one laugh from natural impulse, and not from college spirit, or friendship with their editors. We wish, however, that Lampy could be persuaded to dismiss the slave and wring the Ibis's neck. It would spare us and him much in point of soliloquies about his menage, which...
...Hall pointed out that his subject was one which would have caused laughter in a university audience only a few years ago, as until recently western peoples considered Christianity to be the only religion and that non-religion and irreligion alone stood opposed to it. Happily Christians now see that Asia, not Israel whence Christianity sprung, is the mother of religions and that there are other vital faiths besides their own. The East has clung to the pantheistic and polytheistic of these beliefs, but the West has developed monotheism of which Christianity is the highest form...