Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Lake in saying that the orthodox amateur preacher has lost his great appeal to the educated classes, has only partially summed up the feeling of the College in this matter. For Harvard has realized, vaguely at first, but more and more through the years that all blind religion and superstitious ceremonialism inevitably must go. So dogmas have slumbered, compulsory chapel has ceased to exist, and Harvard has come to be called the college of the atheist...
...Rome, a number of royal princes and princesses boarded the train. Officials of the Hellenic Republic were conspicuous by their absence. Finally, at Florence, after an Orthodox Church service, the body was recommitted to the ground until such time as the Government at Athens permits it to be buried there...
Rabbi Levi, explaining that there could be no "static religion", denied the existence of an orthodox religion...
Last Week, the Turk deported His All Holiness Constantinos VI, Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, because he was not a Turkish citizen. The Treaty of Lausanne (TIME, Aug. 6, 1923), which ended the Greek War and the War between Turkey and the Allies, stipulated that Turkey should in no way interfere with the Patriarchate. To this the Turk now replies : "I have not interfered with the Patriarchate but with the Patriarch...
...Visitors Board objected to the union on the ground that Andover was an orthodox institution, while the Harvard Divinity School inclined toward Unitarianism. They claim they have the power to prevent the union on this ground...