Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need is for a living religion rather than a neutral one, and it is the opinion of many that the present chapel is expressive of a certain phase of barren and starved religiosity that was so prevalent in New England several, centuries ago but that has long since spent itself and has gone out of existence. I feel that the time has come to replace this cold lifeless illustration of a worn-out conception by a more appropriate, and a more beautiful, representation...
Intellect will be the chief qualification for admission to the Institute, the search for knowledge its primary purpose. In the choice both of students, who are all to be post-graduates, and of faculty, no account will be taken of race, religion, or sex. If first-rate professors a cannot be found immediately in some departments, the subjects will be omitted for the present. Gifted research men will be relieved of all teaching and allowed to concentrate on work in the laboratory or library...
...religious" attitude of the CRIMSON. I believe that I am correctly interpreting both the editorial and the large mass of opinion opposed to the erection of a memorial chapel in refuting this. Those maintaining that the building of a suitable chapel will be the precursor to a revival of religion at Harvard, even if they are right in their prediction, which I deny, damn their faith by admitting that it is dependent on brick and mortar. With regard to the place, the prospect of a tower higher than that of Memorial Hall to "balance" Widener Library suggests the balancing...
...memorial is to equal its symbolic significance, a new chapel is the last type of edifice to erect on Harvard ground. Among the architect's plans there is a chapel capable of seating a congregation of 2,000. Yet, only a few days ago, the University advisor in religion remarked that even Appleton is too large for ordinary services. The new chapel may be filled three times a year, notably when the Christmas carols services are held. During the remainder of the year it will stand, even more flagrantly than Memorial Hall and Appleton now stand, as a tribute...
...series of five discussion groups on the general subject of religious perplexities will be held tonight at 7.30 o'clock in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House. The meetings, the first of which was given last Thursday, are led by T. L. Harris, the University Adviser in Religion, and are open to members of the University...