Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University (Ada, Ohio), the great political names in Ohio were McKinley, Hanna, Foraker, Hay. President Garfield's sons were still on the scene. John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury, Senator, Secretary of State, did not die until 1900. Ohio politics was a vivid mixture of business (two parts), religion (two parts) and state pride (one part). The twin veins of politics and religion in Mark Hanna appeared as twin veins of business and religion in Ohio's great industrialists of that day, such as John D. Rockefeller of Cleveland and the Gambles and Procters of Cincinnati. A purer...
...fact, the tendency of the professor might be deemed more toward religion in general and Christianity in particular than that of the student. No small proportion of the faculty of Harvard lectures in Appleton Chapel, and undoubtedly there is a greater proportion of the faculty in attendance at the nine o'clock service than of the student body. Such a "pallid prophet" as Mr. Biederwolf mentions gets the least sympathetic audience among college minds...
...Second Half: Dean W. L. Sperry, "An Evaluation of Christianity"; Professor Kirsopp Lake, "The Evolution of Christian Thought"; Dean H. B. Washburn, "Personal Religion"; Professor G. H. Palmer '64, "Selfishness"; Bishop J. T. Dallas, "The Religion of College...
According to the report, eight hours and twenty minutes a day are enough for sleep and three hours and forty minutes for recreation. A mere ten minutes suffices for religion, but the student redeems himself with a record of nearly six hours used in study every day in the week, a total very little under the 44 hour week of the average business man. The extra time left in his day are taken up in miscellaneous activities such as eating and travelling...
...Lectures Committee has aimed this year to secure men of national prominence, leaders in their field of religion, discussion, law, publishing, teaching, and government. It has aimed also to engage men who would be of strong appeal to the student body and whose speeches would deal with religious, philanthropic, or other like subjects...