Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faculty, Dr. Drury considers personality the most important element. By this means, a set of standards and convictions, the positive value of beauty, and an understanding of religion can best be instilled in the students, he told his audience. He scored the "present day carefreeness" towards dress. "Why should so many youths take liberty with a school-liberties which carry with them carelessness and unwashedness, offensive alike to neighbor pupils and teachers," he asked...
...books is valuable one in that it preserves in permanent form the ideas of many men and women whose influence upon American thought has been far reaching. The topics discussed cover a wide range and include such subjects as nationalism, modern economic theory, pacifism, education, religion, science, literature, and marriage...
...addition to the announcement of five new Faculty appointments by the Corporation yesterday, it was revealed that William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, will succeed Ralph, B. Berry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, as Chairman of the Division of Philosophy and Psychology and of the Department of Philosophy, on September...
...What we must avoid is a progressive deterioration of mankind as a result of the reckless and copious breeding of protected inferiors. We have not the knowledge to breed supermen, but we can limit the reproduction of criminals and mental defectives. Let us cease to delude ourselves that education, religion or other measures of social amelioration can transform base metal into gold. Public enemies must be destroyed-not reformed...
...present volume consists in the first part of essays on mediaeval religion, originally presented at the Forwood Lectures for 1934 at the University of Liverpool; the second part is "The Origins of the Romantic Tradition," which first appeared in the "Criterion"--like Mr. Ezra Pound, Mr. Dawson finds the essence of Romanticism, without XIXth century secretions, in the Provencel literary tradition, when literature and religion co-operated and collaborated, and the present dualism was yet unknown; the third part is a paper on "Piers Plowman." There is a central unity, however, for Mr. Dawson's concern throughout is with...