Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...holier than thou' complex that "the lack of religious feeling in Harvard has reached such a point and is so well known that something must be done about it." This statement of our Defender of the Faith is wrong or right according to the meaning of the term religion. If by that revered word is meant those narrow, dogmatic views which condemn those who do not conform, which are founded on and thrive on superstition, fear and ignorance, and the devotees of which feel it their duty to show their piety by publicly kow-towing at the behest of some...
...something must be done about it. What could be more fitting than a new chapel to stop the mouths of the hypocrites, beathens, and one-cylinder Shaws, who raise their puny, babbling voices demanding that God be sold for a gymnasium?" It will put Harvard on the map in religion as Haughton did in football...
BRIDE OF THE LAMB?Alice Brady giving a turbulent and true picture of a small town wife who mixed sex and religion with unfortunate results...
During the 290 years of its existence Harvard has stood a tower of conservative liberalism. Liberalism in thought education, politics, religion. Not for nothing was the Reverend John Harvard, whose bequest in 1638 of his library and half his estate won him, the posthumous Loner of godfather to the infant school a nonconformist and an emigrant from the intolerance of the homeland. Battles there were, to be sure, stern doctrinary struggles such as the attempt under the presidency of the Reveread Increase Mather to bind down the college with the dour tenets of Calvinism. But liberalism always triumphed somehow...
These and other equally irreverent rejoinders are now being heard on the college campus. They constitute the real student movement in America today. To the present writer the movement seems wholly good if the professor recognizes the situation in time. The student's questioning of the value of religion in daily life is equally to the good if church leaders recognize the situation in time. All these revolts and objections are evidences of keen intellectual enthusiasm, of the discovery that participation in the real life of the world is much more fun than playing with the ephemeral ideals...