Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual series of discussions of religion as related to every-day life will begin on November 6, when Roscoe Pound Hon '20, Dean of the Law School, will speak on "Religion and Law." Other speakers definitely chosen for the first half of this course include Dr. Michael Pupin, who is listed to discuss "Religion and Science" on November 20. Dean W. B. Donham '98, of the Business School, who will talk on "Religion and Business" on November 27, and Dr. R. C. Cabot '89, of the Department of Social Ethics, who is scheduled for December 4 to speak on "Religion...
...notice also that, under the departments of ART, MUSIC, EDUCATION, RELIGION, SPORT, SCIENCE, most of the events chronicled have happened in the United States. Does nothing of importance in these spheres happen in Canada, in Europe, in any other parts of the world? Or do you consider your readers not intelligent enough or broad-minded enough to be interested in foreign affairs, in events outside the United States...
Last week the general assembly voted to put the Seminary under a single board of control, and heard an investigating committee recommend that Dr. Machen's appointment "be not confirmed." Said Moderator Thompson, his head bowed, his voice faltering: "It is not more theology but more religion that is needed in Princeton." The general assembly applauded...
People who resent hearing Jesus called "first Rotarian" resent also he kindred phenomenon of a smooth-spoken advertising expert exercising his facile dictaphone to bring home truths about religion with which most literate people consider themselves perfectly conversant. Critics have derided Mr. Barton's writings for carrying he strong odor of professional publicity and for the seeming presumptuousness of the titles: Nobody Knows." The implication is: "Nobody knows but Bruce Barton, and many people are affronted by such mixtures of religious with secular talk as "Christianity was launched as a short-time proposition." . . . "Preachers . . . believed the world would be . . . liquidated...
...Omaha the "high spot" in his speech came when he said that "a man's religion ought never be a factor in his right to hold office." The crowd wildly cheered the reference to Alfred E. Smith. Observers agreed, however, that Governor Ritchie made an excellent personal impression upon both Generals and Privates of the Western Democratic army. They pointed out that Governor Ritchie's wetness is known but that Governor Smith's is notorious; that Governor Ritchie's nomination would raise no "Romanist" bugaboo; that though the Maryland Governor might bring to the Democratic convention...