Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farewell at our senior banquet," a circumstance which may have explained some of the garrulity with which the youth fulfilled it. Extracts: "If I have the personal qualities requisite for the Kenneth Sterling Day award-if I have a sound moral character-it is because my parents and my religion have taught me the wisdom of not having an immoral character...
Professor K. F. Mather, of the Geology Department, will deliver a lecture entitled "The Impact of Modern Science upon Religion" before a meeting of the School for Country Ministers, to be held tonight at the Boston University School of Theology...
...myself against this opinion. I believe that if India is tired of white rule, and if the British are tired of ruling India, then India must be prepared either to be ruled by the yellow race, or by those of the brown races whose religion is other than Hinduism, or by Soviet Russia...
...with this spirit of questioning has come moreover the tendency to elevate purely scientific standards in comparison with which every phenomenon of life must stand or fall. And out of this has grown what seems to be one of the greatest controversies of contemporary life, that between, science and religion. It is, indeed, whether subconsciously or not, from this controversy that the books by Mr. Spaulding and Dr. Brown--two among many--have come, each representing a different attitude. Mr. Spaulding, a professor of Philosophy at Princeton, has attacked the subject of "What Am I"? and "What Shall I Believe...
...American Inquisitors," as its subtitle shows, is a commentary on Dayton and Chicago, and their respective problems of American education, in which religion, on the one hand, and patriotism, false or real, on the other, came into conflict with what in some other places are called the higher aims of education...