Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Davidson had made various efforts to get her to change her mode of life, and once saved her from a lover who was trying to punch her face. "All right, all right," said Miss Harris, "but when he came to my room he didn't talk about religion. ... He wanted to show me his appendicitis scar." This unveiling was prefaced by one of Dr. Davidson's favorite jokes. Miss Harris repeated it thus to the Court: "A girl and a Scotsman were sitting in the park opposite St. George's Hospital. The Scotsman said: 'I will...
...facts gained from a prejudiced pross, and have had no roots in an understanding of the national temperaments of the participants. Oriental civilizations, moreover, have remained an esoteric study in the United States; literary and cultural communication has been slight, and there has been no community of race and religion...
...protest against a person's religion." concluded his bride. "Why should you judge people by their color? I and hundreds of others have taken my husband for what he is-a brilliant...
Whiting Williams, lecturer and wrier on labor and management problems, will give a lecture tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House. Delivering the eighth lecture in a series of the Course of Religion, Williams will address both students and the public on "Why Men Work...
Professor Eastman quoted the late Professor Gerald Birney Smith: "Protestantism has suddenly become conscious of the inartistic quality of many phases of its portrayal of religion. . . . If Protestantism is worth preserving it can be preserved only as it shall be made as obviously dignified and worthy as Catholicism. But this dignifying of Protestantism cannot be a mere imitation. . . ." Poetry Society. Catholicism is well aware that it is "dignified and worthy." Like Author Ludwig Lewisohn (see p. 55) it knows that poems as well as masses save souls. There is in the U. S. a Catholic Writers Guild. Last year there...