Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jewish Religion in the Modern World" will be the problem discussed by Ludwig Lewisohn, noted author, at a meeting tomorrow afternoon in Emerson Hall sponsored by the Harvard Avukah Society...
...England, Harvard would hardly be recognized by its founders now. The College was organized around theology, and its curriculum was the same for all students. Today the picture is just about as different as it could be. Religious courses have virtually passed out of the college curriculum, while of religion as a unifying philosophy for all learning there is left not a trace. In view of this, the new Freshman survey course on "The Christian Religion", projected by the Divinity School for next year, comes as something of a novelty. Planned to deal mainly with the philosophy of Christianity, with...
...result of this movement away from religion has been that, in a University which prides itself on presenting both sides of every important question, one view of religion has been slighted. While scientific objectivity reigns supreme in religious study, the case for Christianity as a personal faith is neglected. For this reason, the new course planned by the Divinity School should be welcomed by the College with open arms. But that this course heralds a return of religion to any part of its former importance in education is not likely. True, President Eliot's theory of specialization seems to have...
...disagreement can now remain. Considering the issue more vital than the John Reed Society protest, the magazine editors have invited Mr. Browder to attack this curtailment of religious freedom from the steps of their Mount Auburn Street building. Perhaps it can be considered fortunate that infringement of speech and religion have occurred together. In one telling blow, delivered to a crowd that should block every street from Plympton to Dunster, Browder can express the hopes of Harvard that the Bill of Rights will resist its attackers...
...years. There is an obsession, as readers of his novels would expect, with death; a strong interest in the "macabre" (a word he nowhere uses); a pervasive fear of war, of revolution, of the end of civilization; the constant meditation of a devout man who has abandoned formal religion. There are "portraits" of Gide, Stein, Cocteau; excellent observations on painting, sculpture, music, films, above all on writing...