Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Modern' is attached. The first I represent by the viewpoint of Harry Elmer Barnes, the second by that of John Haynes Holmes, the third by that of Walter Lippmann, Julian Huxley, and Bertrand Russell, and the fourth by the name of Harry Emerson Fosdick." T. L. Harris, adviser in Religion in the University, said last night at a Liberal Club gathering in Lowell House...
...next group, which I consider to be typified by Mr. Holmes, hold that every new opinion which turns up should be seen from a conservative view, in order to make that opinion more rational and correct," Dr. Harris continued. These people have broken with traditional forms of religion, but regard religious ideas with a fitting ethical seriousness. They have no clear grasp of the difference which exist between intelligent men of different religious beliefs, according to the lecturer...
...Every man who wants to be religious should read Lippmann's "Preface to Morals," Huxley's "Religion Without Revelation," and Russell's "What I Believe," Dr. Harris said. These writers have no naive belief in Science as the now Mesiah, but own a humanistic point of view in all matters. "I think that these authors have inclined to an over-analytic train of thought...
...Harvard Liberal Club will hear Dr. T. L. Harris, adviser in Religion in the University, speak on "Liberalism in Religion" in the Lowell House Common Room at 7.30 o'clock tonight. The talk will follow the dinner and business meeting in the House at 6.30 o'clock and is open to all members of the University...
When U. S. college students get into a serious discussion among themselves they usually start with religion, end with sex. Incomprehensible to most of them is the European student's passionate preoccupation with political and sociological problems, which often impels him to strike, riot, kill. But U. S. colleges have their minority quota of young men and women who look curiously, if conservatively, out upon the larger world, ponder its problems and predicaments. They are more likely to belong to a debating society than to the football team, more inclined to politics than to literature. Most of them like...