Word: prays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pray accept these assurances and my sentiments of personal respect and believe me to be, Your obedient servant, (Signed) RAMSAY MACDONALD...
...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...
...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...
Whether other Christian associations pray for us because we do not have compulsory chapel or because our religious life does not appear to them to be what it should be, I do not believe that we should respond in an attitude of amused disdain. And if thirteen colleges got down on their knees to pray for us at Indianapolis, I do not believe that we should jump at the conclusion that it was merely the result of our chapel system. Are we so satisfied with the religious life of the University as a whole, that we can smile at their...
...thirty drawings submitted were judged yesterday afternoon by a jury consisting of Mr. James L. Greenleaf, president of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Mr. Robert W. Beal M.L.A. '13, of Boston, Professor H. V. Hubbard '97, a member of the firm of Olmsted Brothers, and Professor J. S. Pray '95, chairman of the School of Landscape Architecture...