Word: religion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Since the death of Professor Royce, who held the Alford professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy and civil polity, in succession to Professor Palmer, it has been rumored that Bertrand Russell would be called from England to the chair made vacant by Professor Royce. It is certain that no such offer has ever been made to Mr. Russell, though he had been invited to lecture at Harvard during the present year. Whether or not such an offer ever will be made remains to be seen, but it does not seem likely that if Mr. Russell is called to Harvard...
...career he was a professor and later became president of Leland Stanford Jr., from 1891-1913. Since then he has been chancellor. In 1910 he was made chief director of the World Peace Foundation. He has written many books among which are "The Voice of the Scholar" and "The Religion of a Sensible American...
...Divinity School, University of Chicago, contains the William Belden Noble lectures, which were delivered at the University in 1916. Professor C. H. Moore's "The Religious Thought of the Greeks from Homer to the Triumph of Christianity" deals primarily with the genetic development of the higher phases of religion and discusses ancient morality, Roman religion, Oriental cults and early Christianity. Another addition to the Harvard Theological Studies is "The Pauline Idea of Faith in its Relation to Jewish and Hellenistic," by Professor W. H. P. Hatch '98, of the General Theological Seminary...
Here in Harvard we have always stood for free speech. For a century we have cherished the principle of freedom in religion. There is still a question, how-ever, as to whether the average Harvard man leaves college with free ideals...
...trouble with most of our ideals is, that they are absorbed, not thought out. Our politics, our religion, are imbibed rather than constructed. How many men who voted in the straw ballot, how many who will march in the Hughes parade tonight, base their acts on solid reasoning and conviction? The only reason why free-thinkers are persecuted is that the majority of people do not take time to think. They blindly follow the conservatism of the last decade, finding it easier to submit than to investigate...