Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lecture course in religion under the auspices of the Graduate School Society will be given again this year at Phillips Brooks House. The course is comprised of a series of 12 lectures to be given by the leading authorities on theological subjects in the country on successive Sunday afternoons at 4 o'clock, beginning November...
...many another U. S. institution, the name of Frank N. D. Buchman was only a name at Princeton, vaguely signifying personal interviews on religion, until last fortnight when Mr. Buchman's approach to religious problems, through his subjects' autoerotic tendencies was first made generally public (TIME, Oct. 18). Princeton men remembered that Mr. Buchman had been forbidden to practice his calling upon their campus two years ago, but not until last fortnight did they realize why. Then, last week, Mr. Buchman returned to the U. S. from a call to the Empress of Siam. Soon his presence...
...Cleveland Hicks, graduate of Trinity College, no Buchmanite. By definition, Buchmanism, which consists in private conferences between gospeler and proselyte, did not obtain at Waterbury, where the work was primarily with crowds at street corners, in factories, schools, shops. According to its promoters, the Waterbury revival was "adventurous religion . . . flaming youth . . . united impact ... a synthesis between the hand-to-mouth methods of the Salvation Army and the more reasoned approach of the Christian student movement and the best trained ministry in the country." The results: "The young people's societies of the various [Waterbury] churches find their attendance upon...
Edmund Trowbridge '28, and Richard Cary '63, as executors of the will of John Alford, who had died in 1761, established in Harvard College, according to the desires of Alford, in 1789, the Alford Professorship of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity. Alford's will left $10,000 each to Harvard College; the "College of New Jersey", now Princeton; and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Indians...
...When the government, dictates the morals of the people, there is no need for religion," he declared. "The purpose of all this restraining legislation on education and religion is to curb the idealism and individualism of the people so that they may fit into the place in the governmental plan that has been cast for them. The whole process makes for a petrifaction, a stultification, and a dead chine which can only end in the machine of mankind turning to find one man with a spark of religion and individuality to act is the savior of the race...