Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lawyer Clarence Darrow, professional agnostic, has appeared in some 30 forums on religion throughout the U. S. this year, all of them under the management of his old friend George G. Whitehead of Columbus, Ohio, a former lyceum promoter. Lawyer Darrow's standard theses are Tolerance, Good Will, Better Understanding. Dr. Bruce S. Wright, Christian Century's Buffalo correspondent, was one of Lawyer Darrow's opponents in Buffalo and Erie, Pa. In last fortnight's Christian Century he described the workings of the Darrow forums as follows: Promoter Whitehead, himself a good Methodist. goes...
Other Morris Gray lectures are planned for the coming semester. It is probable that G. H. Palmer '64, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, will deliver one of the coming talks
...dignity and beauty of her race. She appears to a poor peon and about this miracle the Church has woven all the mystery and hidden power characteristic of the Catholic tradition. In Catholicism the Indian finds the sonorous repetition of a potent formula which is what he asks of religion. His imagination is caught by the gilded altar-piece and he is emotionally confused and stirred by the lighting of the tapers and the windy timbre of the organ which seems to come from nowhere...
...following fields of study: Agriculture, Anthropology, Archeology and History of Art, Architecture, Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Classical Languages and Literature, Criminology, Economics, Education, English Languages and Literature, Geography, Geology, History, Law, Mathematics, Medicine and Surgery, Oriental Languages and Literature, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science and International Law, Psychology, Religion, Romance languages and Literature Semitle Languages and Literature, Slavic Languages and Literature, Sociology, and Zoology. Candidates for the fellowships must be either graduates of colleges of recognized standing, graduates of professional schools requiring three years of study for a degree, or be twenty, four years of age and have spent five years...
...materials out of which we can recover and put together its lost chapters lie scattered among the buried cities of the Near East. This whole region is about to come for the first time under western rule, and for the first time in history the birth lands of religion and civilization lie open to unobstructed study and research. In the entire history of knowledge this is the greatest opportunity . . . for the study of man and his career. . . . The noblest task in the study of man is to recover the story of the human career, which culminated in the emergence...