Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the many years in which Harvard has allowed the question of a man's religion to be his own question rather than that of the University, daily chapel has been attended by a modest group of regular persons, faculty and students alike. Practically speaking it is to be expected that the new building will increase the number of those who form the central core of the morning services. Participation in the services is not demanded by the University. It is to be hoped that in the new surroundings increasing numbers of Harvard men will find a natural influence towards...
...Memorial Tower last night, and avoiding the few straggling Freshmen vainly trying to register an hour too late, sped his way to the late lamented Union. He gorged himself well on the fare intended only for the newcomers, carefully avoiding the recognizing eye of his friend, the Adviser in religion. Then he settled himself comfortably in a soft spot to enjoy the fumes of Benson and Hedges, lulled into absent dreams by the pleasant voices of the speakers...
...much is still left to the reader's own reasoning powers, but he does have a new conception of vital power. For the first time the new scientific attitude toward God and religion is defined. Whether we agree with it or not, it stimulates us to think out for ourselves our own theories and ideas...
...being a hodge-podge of fiction, general articles, household hints and dress designs scattered without plan through pages of advertising, the new McCall's looks like three magazines bound as one. The first 30 pages are designated "News & Fiction." Therein are stories, reviews of cinema, music, radio, books, religion. Then the reader comes to a second cover in four colors, showing a detail of a table set for luncheon. This section is named "Homemaking." Fifty pages farther back a third color cover (woman at a dressing table) introduces "Style & Beauty." Advertisements are distributed to correspond. Every advertiser is assured...
...established." Throughout his life he was seen regularly in church though he did not often kneel in prayer or partake of communion. Washington's reputation, like that of such Deists as Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin, is one of coolness and moderation in religion. But through his time swept a hot blast of evangelism, chiefly in the Methodist and Baptist faiths. General Washington one day went to Rev. John Gano, chaplain in the Continental Army, and exclaimed: "I have been investigating the Scripture, and I believe immersion to be baptism taught in the Word...