Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Left to themselves the students would probably have continued happily concerned with the enjoyment of their leisure time; brought face to face by their professors with world currents in polities, economics and religion, they have discovered that their own playthings were somewhat immature. It was much more fun playing with the tools of grown-up men. They responded with avidity. Free speech in the classroom and on the campus, for which the professors had been fighting in their university association, became in turn the rallying cry of the student. The right of a radical professor to retain his collegiate chair...
...present day) his flowers of faith?gorgeous roses dewed with the jewels of eminence, lowly poppies jeweled with repentent tears, episcopal orchids and unseen violets, flowers of the field and of city back lots, posies of the little windowbox and plants grown resplendent in the conservatory of religion. The ingathering is almost complete this wek. A million Roman Catholics, purified in soul by weeks and months of frequent communion, are setting their mundane affairs in order. Three weeks hence, June 20-24, they will be assembled in Chicago and looped with the bonds of Catholic ceremony. Then will waft about...
...idea is applicable to all our relations. In everything, we should stop short of conflict, while never abandoning a foundation principle. For example, things of faith, of religion, of ethics, are very great to us Americans, and their very greatness compels, or should compel, restraint. We shall always have our Fundamentalists and our Modernists. These two are real words, and splendidly descriptive. Neither side could have been more fortunate in its name. There is something that governs the universe, and always has governed it and always will govern it, that lies at the bottom of things. The minds and hearts...
...largest item on the program is a series of 12 lectures by such eminent men as Frederick Palmer '69, Dean Sperry of the Theological School, Professor J. H. Woods '87, and Professor Kirsopp Lake, on various general topics in vital religion. Half of these lectures, which are designed to help in clearing up problems occurring to the questioning minds of students, will be given on the last six Sunday afternoons before the Christmas vacation, and the other six lectures will be given on successive Sundays after the mid-year examinations. All of these meetings will take place in Phillips Brooks...
There is still in the mind of man some desire for the liturgical and thus the beautiful. And in his religion almost everyone likes to find such an expression of the beautiful. He may not agree completely with Keats. He does not need to. But neither need he care to associate his sacred and deified conceptions with the cheapness revealed by the California clergyman. Taste may not be essential in the forum or on the market place. It is certainly essential in the pulpit of a modern church or on the rostrum of a modern church convention...