Word: religion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Whatever opinion one may have about the function of religion in a university today, there is no question as to what its position was in the early history of the college...
...Christian religion is at the basis of our civil as well as educational institutions - Christ and His church are necessarily and essentially the patrons of culture, the inspirers of education and the founders of colleges. There have been times when the church has been recreant to her trust. But history has shown that in the long run and considering the contemporary conditions she has been faithful. The past has shown that with religion at the basis of our civilization, culture will be sustained, sound learning encouraged and character upbuilt. But we have had no assuring evidence from history or from...
...American School of Applied Ethics will hold its fourth annual summer meeting in Plymouth, Mass., beginning July 7 and continuing until Saturday, August 9, a period of five weeks. The school, which comprises the following departments, Economics, Ethics, Education and History of Religions, will this year be under the charge of Professor H. C. Adams of the University of Michigan, Dr. Felix Adler of New York, and Prof. C. H. Toy of Harvard University, and everything seems to point to a most successful session. Some of the most distinguished lecturers in the United States will be present, among whom...
...less outward show than the religious, yet there are none which play a more important part in the student life. How important a part they do now play, very few of the undergraduates themselves realize. Statements on the subject cannot properly take the statistical form which is most forcible. Religion must lose its true character if it is dragged into the light as a matter of how many men attend chapel daily, or how many engage in organized charitable work. True devotion or true charity shrinks from the attempt to publish it abroad as ground for self-laudation, and there...
English masterpieces of the nineteenth century, by Miss Vida D. Scudder. The aim of the course will be less the study of literature than the apprehension of life through literature. The masterpieces chosen will be such as express the relation of literature to different movements in sociology, art and religion...