Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announcement of changes and additions to be made in the Department of Philosophy for next year was made yesterday afternoon, by J. H. Woods '87, chairman of the department. Two new courses will be offered for the first time by W. E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, and by J. A. C. Auer, professor of Church History and Parkman Professor of Theology...
Professor Hocking is not teaching this year, but will return from Asia where he is making a study of the relations between the different religions principally in India and China. The committee with which he is connected is composed of Rufus Jones of Haverford, and former President Faunce of Brown. During the winter, sects in India have been studied, and at the present time the commission is at Hong-Kong, awaiting military developments before proceeding north to Peking. On the material gathered by this survey, Professor Hocking will base a course in Oriental Religion. He will also give a course...
...Agencies for Social Control: Religion," Professor Carver, Emerson...
...Dean Fenn was not a preacher, for he was a minister in the, broadest interpretation of the word. In him the theology of the scholar was subordinate to the religion of humanity. A Unitarian by inclination and by training his greatest faith was in mankind. Few older men have brought so much to younger men as he did in his daily contact with the students...
...possessed, yet they were manifest in all he did or said. As a teacher he was more interested in developing keen and unaffected minds than careful theologians. As a minister he sought to instill the precepts of his Christianity in the minds of his people. As a beleiver in religion he cared less for what it was than for what it might...