Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rockne's Religion Sirs: We note that on p. 2 of TIME for Dec. 22 that Knute Rockne, the famous football coach, was converted to Catholicism some four years ago. We are enclosing a clipping from p. 20 of the Pathfinder for Jan. 3, which states that Rockne is a Protestant. Will you please explain the discrepancy between these two answers to the same question? . . . ALICE W. HICKMAN Sioux City, Iowa Knute Kenneth Rockne became a Roman Catholic...
Boston University is probably the most liberal institution of higher learning in New England. It offers the "open door" policy to all students; it is not prejudiced against any religion...
Clarence Darrow, militant agnostic and Chicago criminal lawyer will meet the Reverend Dr. Herbert S. Johnson on the platform of Symphony Hall at 8 o'clock tomorrow night on the question. "Is Religion Necessary." The debate which will present the famous jurist before a Boston audience for the first time as an agnostic is to be held under the auspices of the Discussion Guild...
...Mountains." In 1904 Curt Jett, in behalf of James Hargis, his clan chief and uncle, shot & killed a federal officer and a local police chief.* He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Prison tamed the "Wild Dog of the Mountains." He had never been vicious. And when he professed religion he was accepted as a good Methodist. In 1918 he was pardoned. Feudist times were passed ; the law had tamed the wilful mountaineers. Berea College and Lincoln Memorial University were providing them with modern culture. Curt Jett became an itinerant Methodist evangelist. He married, and entered Asbury College at Wilmore...
Dean Roscoe Pound '90, dean of the Law School and Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, will deliver the first of the lectures for the second half-year on February 8. His topic will be "Religion and the Legal Order...