Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Increase in Religion Needed...
...Reverend A. F. Hickey opened the symposium with a short address in which he emphasized the need of religion in education. "The dominant human hunger is for truth," he said, "and the basic truth is the existance of God. The appreciation of the existance is the start of human joys." He concluded in saying that religion and education should always work together...
...second speaker was Rabbi Harry Levi who commenced by showing that the union of religion and education could be represented in no better way than in the evening's meeting. He continued, "We have not been able to raise the average morals with increased wealth or with increased education. What is needed is an increase in religion. The hope of the world is always in the youth and as a result some social influence is needed to keep him from becoming too self centered. This influence should be a religion, not a purely intellectual one, but one which is deeper...
...last speaker was the Reverend Raymond Calkins '90 who outlined the relative development of education and religion. He also read a number of statements made by such agnostics as Clarence Darrow, and attacked them as pernicous influences in education. He closed by quoting part of a speech made by President Angell of Yale...
...Lecture Course in Religion had found a real place at Harvard. Most of the lectures were well attended, the average attendance at the eleven lectures being 167. The first six were designed to help men better to understand the part of organized religion in the world today, and the last five touched, more intimately on the religious problems and perplexities faced by the individual. The lectures were as follows: The first half: Prof. R. C. Cabot, "The Need of Religion"; Rev. A. F. Hickey, "Roman Catholocism"; Rabbi S. S. Wise, Judaism"; Dean W. L. Sperry, "Protestantism"; Dr. H. S. Fosdick...