Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John is one of the "modern temper" group of twentieth century intellectuals who has run the gamut of atheism, socialism, and Bolshevism. That love and marriage had been abolished in the latter state and that schoolboys were throwing spitballs at Almighty God delighted this iconoclast. But it is the religion of love as symbolized and poetized in Christian dogma that brings him to conversion. Religion supplied the necessary ideal meaning of his earthly and therefore transient love. The similar position that the philosophic poet and man of letters, George Santayana, has taken in the past ten years may clarify what...
William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, will be one of the speakers at a dinner to be given for Alexander A. Troyanovsky, Russian Ambassador to the United States, at the Copley-Plaza on Thursday, March 8. The dinner is being given by the American Russian Institute and Professor Hocking is president of the New England branch of the society...
...When he was five, he mistook a white-bearded bishop for God. Brought up in piety, he got an encyclopedia from his father for neither drinking, smoking nor gambling until 21. He went to Upper Iowa University at 16, to Cornell at 20. More interested in law than in religion, he changed his mind during his first year at Cornell. Thereafter John R. Mott's work was for Christ. He began Y. M. C. A. work as Cornell vice president in 1885. By 1915 he was holding the topnotch job of international general secretary. He helped build the Student...
...committee of ten citizens who met with Governor Ely this week in support of Howard B. Gill '13, now under fire in the investigation of the Norfolk Prison Administration. The professors who discussed conditions at the prison with the Governor were William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity; Kirtley F. Mather, Professor of Geology; Kendrick N. Marshall '21, Instructor in Government; and J. Anton de Haas '11, William Ziegler Professor of International Relationships...
Thus one flesh to the satisfaction of the New York State law, Mr. & Mrs. Obadie had still to go through a ceremony according to the gentle tenets of their religion -Baha'i. This loosely organized faith, to which some 5,000 U. S. believers adhere, has no priesthood, is not recognized by civil law as qualified to perform marriages. Nonetheless Mr. & Mrs. Obadie asked a friend to read them the Baha'i service. He was Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Persian poet and a U. S. Baha'i leader. Two nights later they met for the ceremony with friends...