Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finnish Relief Fund nearly missed. Near week's end it was reminded (by TIME'S Religion editor) that in the newest (1935) Methodist Hymnal, Hymn No. 73 is sung to the tune of Jean Sibelius' Finlandia. It begins...
...long now." Church services, Christmas trees, and parties will crowd the days. Parents will hunger for talk, and give advice. Harvard will be at home, in a thousand places at once. Some students will lecture their bewildered families on the war, on politics, or on religion; brothers and sisters will laugh at their seriousness. Others will waste their substance in gaiety, while doting parents shake their heads but shrug philosophically, "Well, he's only young once, and he gives the girls such a good time." It's all over in two weeks; Harvard gives and Harvard takes away...
...Personal testimony and advice from men of recognized standing, who have been long concerned with these problems, is worth more to our ministers-to-be than formal academic courses, since a purely secular account of the facts does not satisfy the requirements of an ethical religion, even though it provides the subject matter for ethical interpretation." Dean Sperry said...
...Harvard Divinity School, he said, does not accept for registration any applicant planning to enter college teaching, even in the field of religion. The eighty students last year represented thirteen different church denominations, he said...
Explaining the purpose of the talks the Reverend Frederic B. Kellogg, who will manage them, said; "A considerable number of undergraduates have expressed a desire to discerns questions of religion informally with visiting clergymen and so if has been suggested that meetings be held from time to time in the common terms of the various college houses. Men of all denominations will speak and all members of the University are welcome...