Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessity for a required philosophy course is now met. Those students who wander uncertainly in the slough between religion and science may find assistance in Phil. 6a and 6b. Philosophy of Religion; or Phil. 7a. The Philosophic Basis of Religion; or Phil. 2, Philosophy and History of Religion; or Phil. 4a, Ethical Systems which makes "a comprehensive study. . . .of Christianity and modern materialism." Announced for next year is Phil. B, Types of Religion. "The purpose of this course is . . .to aid students in working out a tenable view of the world for themselves...
Plans for the publication by Scribner's of the Sunday afternoon addresses given in the Lecture Course in Religion. T. G. Frank 2G., Chairman, are materialising in accordance with the plan outlined by Mr. Shimer in his report for 1924-25, with but slight variations. There has been an average attendance of 138 at these lectures, of which there have been 18 as follows: Professor C. H. Moore, "The Religion of College Men"; Professor G. F. Moore, "Religion, its History"; Professor J. B. Pratt, Williams College, "Religion, Its Psychology"; Professor T. N. Carver, "Religion, Its Basis in Economic Fact"; Professor...
...subject which is taboo," declared Mr. Hays, "varies with the section of the country. In Tennessee it is religion, in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, it is strikes, and in Massachusetts it is sex. It is worth a man's life to talk of strikes at some times, but it is worth a man's liberty at all times in this section of the country to write of morality, or rather, immorality...
Equally suggestive is the recommendation of the committee of the Council in the matter of instruction in philosophy. It is proposed that the philosophy course shall quite directly envisage the "current conflict between religion and science" not, apparently, in a matter which assumes to settle the question ex-cathedra, but in a way to present the vital elements of the subject. The report says: "The course should present the philosophy of Plato, that of Aristotle, of the Stoics, of Kant, of one of the Moderns, say Bergson, and possibly one or two others." Though the committee does...
...present time when organized religion has ceased to command the allegiance of a large number of students, it becomes urgently necessary that the college teach the business of life in all its aspects. The committee recommends, therefore, that a course in Philosophy be made a requirement for distinction without the alternative of Mathematics...