Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lecture courses in religion, five the first half year and five the second, will be given under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Committee of the Philips Brooks House Association in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, starting November...
...five thousand years there has been human strife. There have been wars of religion, of imperialism, and of revenge, but there is seldom an honest war. Battles give birth to peace settlements that are, as a rule, as futile and as insincere as the combats themselves. The Congress of Vienna which sought so earnestly to roll up the map of Europe forever was followed by a system which several decades later was to leave Europe in the throes of revolution. Disraeli in 1878 said he had won "Peace with honor" for England, and in 40 years she was embroiled...
...send cordial greetings to the Americans of Lutheran faith who are celebrating on October 31 the anniversary of the Protestant Reformation and the 400th anniversary of the reading of the Augsburg Confession from which date so many of the changes in point of view from older conceptions both of religion and government...
...effects of these historical events are reflected in our national life and institutions, in religion through the predominant numbers of adherents of Protestant faiths and in government through the principle of separation of Church and State...
...much to the whole constitutional structure of our country and its institutions that the President of all the people, who is called by virtue of his great office to respect the religious rights of all, congratulates one particular religious body on the changes it introduced from older conceptions of religion and government and declares that we as a nation should commemorate the Protestant persons and the events from which 'these mighty forces shaping our country have sprung...