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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...form of a permanent Adviser in Religion with regular office hours. Harvard has a "noble experiment" all its own. The Reverend T. L. Harris, a graduate of Cambridge University, is the nucleus of the new plan which was initiated this fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Permanent Adviser in Religion With Regular Office Hours Now Connected With University--Plan Proves Successful | 2/18/1931 | See Source »

...issue which has assumed importance is his cooperation with A. L. Putnam '20, consultant on careers. Students, who are in doubt as to whether a profession is of the kind they should approve or whether it is worth entering, considered from the ethical stand-point, consult the adviser in religion. He also works with Dr. H. A. Shaw, the University psychiatrist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Permanent Adviser in Religion With Regular Office Hours Now Connected With University--Plan Proves Successful | 2/18/1931 | See Source »

Seven works in the field of general literature, philosophy, religion, and art are to be released tomorrow by the Harvard University Press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1930 NORTON LECTURES TO BE PUBLISHED SOON | 2/17/1931 | See Source »

...volume entitled "Religion and Life", W. B. Selbie, Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, presents a simple and summary interpretation of religion in its relation to the life and thought of men under modern conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1930 NORTON LECTURES TO BE PUBLISHED SOON | 2/17/1931 | See Source »

Theosophy theoretically has no dogmas, is defined by Mrs. Besant as "the body of truths which form the basis of all religions and which can not be claimed as the exclusive possession of any." It has three Objects: "1) To form a nucleus of the universal brotherhood of humanity without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color. 2) To encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy and science. 3) To investigate unexplained laws of nature and the power latent in man." But Theosophists believe in many a dogmatic mystery, among them reincarnation. Mrs. Besant in previous incarnations has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atheism to Theosophy* | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

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