Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four main Divisions, in which he will take his degree: Humanities (Philosophy, Art, Comparative Religion, Latin, Greek, Romance, Germanics, English, et al.); Social Sciences (Psychology, Economics, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, et al.); Physical Sciences (Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, et al.); Biological Sciences (Botany, Zoölogy, Physiology, Bacteriology, Pathology...
...Jews, Catholics and Protestants who compose The National Council on Religion in Higher Education, under the presidency of Harvard's Theology Dean Willard Learoyd Sperry, last week offered U. S. and Canadian colleges a new, free service-advice on social sciences, chapel, student counseling and any other matter which may have a religious aspect...
...late Professor Charles Foster Kent of Yale, a good man, organized the Council eight years ago. Its purpose has been "to cooperate ... in giving students, particularly undergraduate students, a scholarly and sympathetic interpretation of religion, chiefly through the channels of the regular curriculum." The chief method of cooperation has been to select and finance "young men and women of high quality of intellect and spirit" through post-graduate university courses, and then commend such Fellows for teaching and administrative positions. Eighty Fellows have taken jobs in more than 30 schools. Forty more are now studying; chiefly at Harvard, Yale, Columbia...
Last week's plan sets apart 56 of the men as Consultants in Religion. Any academic president or professor who wants advice on social or religious matters may write to any of the 56.* If a Consultant lives in the college town he will give viva voce advice. If he must travel, his expenses should be paid...
...Names and addresses available from The National Council on Religion in Higher Education, Barnes Hall, Ithaca, N. Y., or from TIME...