Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alone embodies the spirituality, the truth "as absolute as the difference between right and wrong," that can survive. He predicts a "cataclysm." He cries in the night, with the language of Thomas Carlyle and the tone of Ecclesiastes, for a "master man," a hero to worship and to lead. "Religion lacks its Pentecostal tongue; art lacks the Pentecostal flames of divine inspiration." Woe to the artist-one can see Mr. Cram as a boy, looking into his devout father's big illustrated family Bible-woe to the artist that fails to "serve God through the serving of them that...
...Sunday, Rev. F. G. Peabody '69, former dean of the Divinity School and a brother-in-law of President Eliot, and Rev. S. M. Crothers '99, will conduct the seryices, assisted by Professor Ephraim Emerton '71 and Professor W. N. Cole '90, Dr. Peabody will preach on "The Religion of Charles William Eliot...
...academic activities to the academic activities. This relationship must be worked out by the students. To me the extra-curriculum is the healthful, life-giving source of new curriculum. Out of the debating has grown the Political Science Department, out of the prayer meeting has come the Department of Religion. It would, therefore, seem as though it would be possible to bridge the gap between the academic and the non-academic so as to give real value to the non-academic and so as to vitalize the academic state of the college...
...longer did the popular religion have its prestige, and with the lapse of this religion, tragedy lapsed also. No longer did the legends of gods and heroes, the basis of the work of Sophocles and Aeschylus, hold their place in Athenian culture. No longer was this culture of a kind qualified to fully enjoy "too Chaste deal tragedy...
...such has little interest in sects. Nevertheless the distinctions between modern churches are sometimes of such very great breadth that one cannot subscribe to the tenets of dissimilar faiths, deeply as one may sympathize with them in their ambition to reach God in their own way. Advertising religion is at best an effort to further spiritual progress by materialistic mediums--and this latest attempt is unfortunately symbolical of the entire movement which, in spite of its being headed by the sincerest of men, is little more than an apology for a lick of real religious zeal on the part...