Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When asked his opinion as to the validity of the two charges, dullness and uselessness, which have been preferred against the classics, George Herbert Palmer '64. Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Emeritus, replied that he, himself, had always found the classics interesting, and that he believed the study of them in the original languages had a definite value which could not be supplied by translations...
...Good Catholics or good atheists make the best poets, in my opinion, but I do not think one ought to write poetry if one has 'a religion-of-one's-own'", T. S. Eliot '10, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, said yesterday in his fifth lecture on "The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism," before a large audience in the New Lecture Hall. Mr. Eliot said this in summarizing his disagreement with those posts, particularly Shelley, and also the late D. H. Lawrence, who force beliefs and self-made dogmas to the forefront in their poetry...
...Good poetry, according to my view, should be written by good Catholics and good atheists: not by a man with a religion of his own. Shelley's didactiveness compares unfavorably with Dante's for that reason. Dante assumes that we accept the scheme of the Catholic Church; Shelley tries to convince us of the scheme itself. The poet cannot afford to teach; he is quite at liberty to expound ideas, so long as they aren't his own ideas, for then there is a chance that he will make poetry...
...Shaw play generally is the quintessential ambrosia of entertainment. This one-act burlesque of the American West and its religion is no exception. The irrepressible Shavian effervescence keeps it moving fast from first line to last. And the Stagers do their hit for the glory of the celestial due. Francis G. Cleveland as Blanco mixes subtle perception and incipient delirium tremens in just the right proportions. Philip Bourneuf does a masterly job of hypocritical piety as Elder Daniels. Aldrich Bowker, though erring occasionally on the side of the obvious, makes for the most part a delightfully comic sheriff. The rest...
Some members of the Advisory Committee will accompany the Seminar to give lectures on History, Economics, Politics, Art, Architecture, Religion to the students and conduct discussion groups during the almost three months of travel abroad. Further educational opportunities will be offered in informal conferences arranged with cultural and political leaders prominent in present-day Russia. Arrangements are being made with various universities to give credit for the courses taken...