Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solid, large-framed gentleman in a cutaway entrained from Manhattan for Chicago. This was John R. Mott, 61, General Secretary of the International Y. M. C. A., man with genius for organizing religion, man to be heard with attention. He was bound for a national conference of the organization which under his velvet-gloved hand of iron has carried Protestant Christ to all heathen corners of the globe, has consolidated faith where it already existed, 52 nations in all. He does not look his age, though he should after 38 years of the most strenuous exertion of the will...
...European problem does not lie in a group of men sitting around a table and figuring out what somebody owes; it lies in the introduction of 2,000,000 Fords and 2,000,000 telephones to cut down the cost of transportation, break down the barriers of language, religion, custom and prejudice. ... I think the most impressive fact in the last year's experience in business is that the industry shipped over 700,000 automobiles to foreign countries." One man was exceedingly happy at the convention. He was Thomas Edward Wilson, who has worked hard on the Institute...
Professor J. L. Lowes '03 of the Department of English will open the discussion with a talk on "Religion and Literature." He will be followed by Professor A. T. Davison '06, of the Department of Music, who will deliver a discourse on "Religion and Music...
...Phillips Brooks House will present an innovation at 8 o'clock this evening in the form of a symposium on "Religion and the Arts." Three distinguished representatives of three different departments of art in the University have been obtained to speak tonight...
Professor G. H. Edgell '09, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Chairman of the Council of the School of Architecture, will conclude the triangular symposium by a discussion of "Religion and the Fine Arts". His talk will be accompanied by lantern slides...