Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy, proposed last night as a "Untopian view," a secular Divinity School with no single religious commitment but with a "voice for all religious...
Speaking before an enthusiastic gathering at the Sunday night Hillel lecture series on the problem of "Religious Commitment and the Higher Education," White said that he would be disappointed if a Divinity School at a secular university such as Harvard couldn't ideally teach other religious than Protestantism...
Classical criteria for judging Biblical and secular literature are no longer adequate, the Reverend Amos N. Wilder, Hollis Professor of Divinity, asserted last night in his third lecture of the William Belden Noble series, "Theology and Aesthetic Judgement...
...early years, Penn was the most secular of American educational institutions. While other colleges were scarcely more than divinity schools, the Philadelphia institution pioneered in humanities and natural sciences. In the ensuing two centuries, however, Penn's position has changed. Now it is very much a pretrade school, while the other Ivies uphold, with varying degrees of success, education for education's own sake and a belief that the liberal arts are worthwhile ends in themselves...
...last week and spread across the border to Pakistan. At least 23 Hindus and Moslems were dead, another 500 injured. The riots ripped the delicate fabric of peaceful Hindu-Moslem relations and dealt a cruel blow to Prime Minister Nehru's belief that in nine years of the "secular" state the ancient religious animosities of his people had been "healed and forgotten...