Word: religion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Religion at Cornell: "Attendance is purely voluntary. It must be very severe weather indeed which prevents the Chapel from being full, while it is often so overcrowded that some have to go away." - Amherst Student...
...fail to interest and influence. We cannot but be glad that the college is so fortunate in getting able men to occupy the chapel pulpit, and we believe that in this way the authorities will accomplish much more towards exciting an interest in and respect for all matters of religion among the students, than by any system of compulsion. We think that we can say with no small degree of certainty that, since Sunday attendance at church was made voluntary, quite as many of the students as formerly, perhaps more than formerly, have regularly attended church services...
...have never said that I did. Nor do I think that Harvard "is a hot-bed of incipient nihilism, scepticism, lying and irreligion." What I do say and think is this. Compulsory prayers are a positive injury to the religious sentiment of the college. They are a mockery of religion held continually before our eyes. They create disrespect for religion and furnish the readiest and most fertile subject for the expression of that disrespect. I do not say that irreligion is any more prevalent at Harvard than elsewhere, but I do believe that compulsory prayers are responsible for some...
...many outbursts of journalistic feeling on "Religion at Harvard" have caused a widespread opinion that sober, steady Harvard is departing from the good old ways of its founders into fields of doubt and irreverence. These misinformed conservatives will learn with pleasure that Harvard has not only not abolished compulsory prayers, but has remodeled the old method of conducting them so that now they are more impressive than ever. The new change inaugurated yesterday marks a revolution. The teachings of the Quakers have received support. Hereafter no one will be required to officiate, but each student will quietly mediate, and wait...
...attempt to picture the terrible state of religious feeling at Harvard. Again we hear the antiquated wail that our "study of geology and of the doctrines of evolution" have slowly disintegrated our belief in the "old Bible stories of creation." We are represented as believing that "all religion is a sham, well enough for our ancestors and for old women, but, in the light of modern science, a mere delusion." The pen of the enlightened writer does not pause before that tabooed subject, "compulsory prayers." How pleasing and how refreshing is it for us to hear again that the present...