Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brimstone heaped upon undergraduates, Dr. Henry Emerson Fosdick is conspicuous. For years the advent of Dr. Fosdick has caused a bull movement in the attendance figures of Appleton Chapel. To take Harvard as a university type, no stronger refutation of the current charges against the student apathy toward religion could be found...
...undergraduate of today is not indifferent toward religion. He is profoundly interested in it, but he makes one demand of any creed. He asks that it work...
Student discussion of this topic is confined largely to private groups, and is concerned principally with the workability of religion. In the creeds presented by many preachers of the times the undergraduate finds a system, ready-made and not flexible enough to be adaptable to the work which he asks that it do. He does not care for such a system...
With a workable religion, the undergraduate will work, too. He wants to be an instrument, not a receptacle. Harvard's constant attentions to Dr. Fosdick is a tribute to one who would make an instrument of every...
...familiar example of the type of man whom everybody knows about but very few know much about is Martin Luther. He was a vital influence in the politics, religion and literature of the XVI century and the lectures to be given about him this morning and Saturday by Professor Howard should be of interest to students in any of those fields. They are to be given at 11 o'clock in Sever...