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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the days of the Puritans two factors have caused Harvard to bow theology politely out of the College curriculum. One was the rise of Unitarianism in the early nineteenth century. With the appointment of the liberal Henry Ware as professor of Theology, this denomination came to dominate Harvard teaching. The old-line Trinitarians, feeling that they must train young men in the true faith, broke away from the College proper to form the Andover Seminary. With the old Puritan discipline gone, religious teaching in the College completely changed its form. The Unitarian faith, strongly tied up with Emersonian Transcendentalism...
...Faculty Committee appointed last spring to consider new combination fields of concentration has met this fall and entertained several schemes submitted to it from various departments, Chairman Arthus S. Pease, professor of Latin, and Walter Channing Cabot, Fellow, said yesterday...
...Committee is trying to fill gaps in concentration field possibilities, but "is proceeding conservatively," Professor Pease revealed. "Our work has consisted of approving general plans of combinations rather than the schedules of individual students," he added...
...exile from Russia and an authority on Russian history, Professor Karpovich said that Stalin will be violently opposed, regardless of the policy which he pursues...
...Kremlin may abandon the policy of world revolution for an attempt to regain Russia's prerevolutionary boundaries, or it may try to set up a series of puppet communistic dictatorships in Eastern Europe, Professor Karpovich believes...