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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PROFESSOR JOHN MCCRADY has been elected Professor of Biology and the Relation of Religion to Science, in the University of Tennessee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/12/1877 | See Source »

...happy establishment of the government of the Union, on the patriotism and wisdom which have marked its public transactions, and the very general approbation which the people have given to its measures At the same time, sir, being fully sensible that you are strongly impressed with the necessity of religion, virtue, and solid learning for supporting freedom and good government, and fixing the happiness of the people upon a firm and permanent basis, we beg leave to recommend to your favorable notice the University intrusted to our care, which was early founded for promoting these important ends. .... While we exert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXTRACTS FROM SPEECHES AT THE ALUMNI DINNER. | 7/3/1877 | See Source »

...Creation, and tells us instead that men are descended from monkeys; but who do the monkeys spring from?" Can the Archangel mean to prove that the Biblical and Darwinian theories are compatible, and that Adam and Eve were monkeys? This article, however, only proves the necessity of religion; the other proves that of the Roman Catholic religion, and its superiority to others, by giving a long list of famous men, most of whom lived before Luther's time, who were of course Catholics. If we at Harvard were only such avowed Atheists as we are said to be at heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 6/15/1877 | See Source »

...Yatabe, '76, recently delivered an address in Japan on 'Buddhism,' in which he ranked Christianity as an inferior religion, and urged upon his hearers a higher and more spiritual religion than any now known...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 6/1/1877 | See Source »

...last three lectures of the course on Ethnic Religions will be given in the lecture-room of the Divinity School, by James Freeman Clarke, at twelve o'clock on Tuesday, April 24, May 1, and May 8. Subjects: The Scandinavians and their Religion; The Jews and their Religion; Christianity and all Religions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

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