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...your leader on the 29th September. My appreciation is, to be sure, a little diminished when I see that your editorial writer has not in the least understood what the said article was all about. He seems to have thought that I think it possible to make people pious by university compulsion--a ludicrous idea for even a professor to be supposed to hold. What I was really talking about, of course, was the absurdity of regarding any man as educated who does not understand both that religion, like science and art, is a racially valid technic for the discovery...
...sorceress. Thrilled by Rebecca's stout defiance of Brian de Bois-Guilbert ("I will not trust thee, Templar!") and his mollification by her fortitude (in threatening to jump off a parapet), most children are unaware, as indeed are many grownups, that the original of virtuous Rebecca was a pious young lady from Philadelphia named Rebecca Gratz...
Naturally, when these people enter college, as they do in ever increasing numbers as the aim of education becomes more professional and less cultural, they do not make a sudden metamorphosis and become pious. Nor would they be able to do this if it were required of them. True piety can be won by the individual alone. He must experience deeply much of life, and he must suffer. Since modern living conditions tend to remove the opportunities for meditation and suffering, or at least to postpone such opportunities till after college life, large numbers of students are excusably irreligious...
Fifth U. S. fraternity was Alpha Delta Phi, founded at Hamilton in 1832, carried westward a year later to Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. Organizer of A. D. was a pious Hamilton student named Samuel Eells, preacher's son, who died at 32 after having been for three years a law-partner of Salmon Portland Chase, later a Lincolnian Supreme Court Justice. At Hamilton there is now a Samuel Eells Memorial Hall and at nearby Westmoreland, his birthplace, a memorial boulder. To these places last week went some 500 of the 10,997 living Alpha Delts, to celebrate...
When modernity obtrudes upon religious art, pious folk usually protest. Last week a startlingly modern piece of church art was unveiled in old Chatham, Mass., on Cape Cod. Engrossed mainly with fish and summer visitors, Chatham is respectable and religious. Most people might suppose that it would have no truck with a picture of Jesus Christ, beardless, garbed in corduroys and grey shirt without even a necktie, preaching from a dory manned by two Cape Codders. Such a supposition would be in error. Deeply, reverently pleased were the Chathamites who gathered last week in Old Congregational Church, founded...