Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Temperance. Today Lady Snowden is a governor of the British Broadcasting Corp., patroness of opera and theatre, a justice of peace herself, a valiant opponent of Bolshevism. To the U. S. last week she spoke, over a transatlantic hookup, on another subject which has occupied much of her time: Religion. Lady Snowden is a Primitive Methodist, former Sunday School teacher and choir singer...
...Benjamin Rowland, Jr. '28 will do research work in Japan, China, and possibly India next winter under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. He will make a special study of the history of the religion and art of Japan, with the end in view of establishing a course in the history of Oriental art at Harvard, probably under the title, Fine Arts...
...four hundred followers of the Reverend Frank Buchman found copies of the current New Yorker in the living room when they gathered on Saturday for a ten-day house party at Briarcliff Manor. The portrait of Mr. Buchman and the exposition of the strange garments in which he clothes religion, as presented in the New Yorker's columns, might have made members of "The First Century Christian Fellowship" feel rather like a little girl at the terrible moment when her birthday doll turns out to be only nasty sawdust inside...
...Buchman's methods in militant religion are superficially novel, essentially age-old. He is more genteel than Billy Sunday, more subtle than Almes MacPherson. Instead of clawing the devil before thousands in temple or arena, he carries on painless soul surgery in the well upholstered living room of the rich. Here about the fire-side boys and girls "come clean" and "make their souls feel wonderful...
...Rousseau's Influence on Modern Education and Religion," Professor Babbitt, Sever...