Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with any civilization or any problem: Dr. Meiklejohn and eleven instructors gave the students a program of reading, conference, discussion, papers to be handed in. They read Plato, Aristotle and Euripides, as.well as occasional chunks of Shakespeare, Shaw, O'Neill. They sketched Greek temples. Art, law, war economics, religion-no phase of Athenian existence was omitted. The climax of the year was a critical review, written by each student, of a modern book called the Greek View of Life by G. Lowes Dickinson. A few outsiders, such as Irishman George Russell (AE), lectured...
...table of contents, and five of foreword to American readers, comprise what G. B. S. is pleased to call his last will and testament to posterity. Such a document is often a summary of previous implications: and here are the echoes of many a famous "preface" concerning religion, eugenics, education, professional morality, economics-in short, society. But the echoes are measured and stressed in a grand symphony of discord for which the resolving chord is equality of income. The bizarre title of the composition is calculated to attract male attention: a man cannot confess his ignorance of politics, economics...
...young, unsophisticated minister, and that his purpose was only to maintain interest in his meetings, the conservative board voted angrily for good old gospel sermons, and read its ultimatum to him. There was no escape. Another baton is dropped before it can even be handed on; the old-time religion scores a coup the voices of gold, once ringing melodiously on Sunday evenings, are stilled, and their author must meekly resume the old, old path...
...following list of books Professor William Lyon Phelps, '87, has compiled a series of suggestions for summer reading. Included in this number are twenty-three novels, several books of poetry and drama, and twenty-six biographies. There are also listed publications on sport, religion, general topics on the subject of books themselves, as well as numerous travel and social history works...