Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clergyman or other minister of any religion shall not, without the consent of the party making the confession, be allowed to disclose a confession made to him in his professional character, in the course of discipline enjoined by the rules or practice of the religious body to which he belongs...
...Religion...
...happy Eminence had passed three weeks on the Gulf Coast to recuperate from influenza. Passing out of Baptist Mississippi into Roman Catholic Louisiana, he had made a bit of news at New Orleans by commenting on the Business Depression as follows: "The American People are experiencing a return to religion following a period of carelessness and cynicism marked by the prosperity of the land. . . . Now they are returning when they find they are in need of something greater than the material in facing adversity and stress...
During the course of the week it has been brought out that there are three main classes protesting. First, there are those who believe that the lack of religion at Harvard makes the erection of a new chapel unnecessary. These men deem Appleton quite adequate for both morning and Sunday services. Secondly, there are those who, silent on the practicality of a new edifice, are opposed to the erection of one in the yard, especially to the building that seemingly will arise there. Thirdly, there is a group which, partially passive as to the chapel question, feels that there...
...present chapel may at present afford sufficient size, but it is neither beautiful nor well-designed for the greatest usefulness, and is entirely unsuited as an expression of the truly warm glowing religion that could exist here, attracting students to it rather than sending them elsewhere. J. DeWolf Perry...