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...current is perhaps true, and, if so, the Volunteer movement may be in part responsible. But that does not justify one who left (for however necessary a reason) before the Convention was over in "shooting off half-cocked." On that same Friday night referred to in the editorial, Dr. Speer (who seems to have made such an unfavorable impression on the CRIMSON) gave another address--of a poignancy and frank, personal sincerity that impressed some of us as no talk on a religious subject had done for years. This was followed by a still more effective, penetrating talk the following...
Still more regrettable, however, are the obvious implications of the editorial about religion itself; the spirit of cold, half-cynical and superficial intellectualism which pervades it: No one can challenge the CRIMSON's right to regard Dr. Speer's words--"Think of the most beautiful thing in the world and then conceive of God as something still more beautiful"--as an example of "narrow sectarian religion." But I for one am unwilling that these opinions of the CRIMSON should stand to the world at large, unchallenged, as the Harvard attitude toward real, personal, dynamic Christianity. I am theologically a liberal...
...most part, from the speeches in the big Coliseum was narrow sectarian religion. It is all very well to tell your audience to think of the most beautiful thing in the world and then conceive God as something still more beautiful--that was the substance of Dr. Robert E. Speer's address in the opening session of the convention--but this type of oratory does not impress the ordinary college man. Not all the speeches of the convention were of this type, however: Dean Brown of Yale gave an inspiring address on the great international problems facing the world today...
Approximately 40 colleges and universities are to be represented by delegations at the Conference. The daily program will include discussion groups on college problems and addresses by such men as Bishop Lawrence, John R. Mott, Robert E. Speer, and Sherwood Eddy in the mornings and evenings leaving the afternoons free for tennis, golf, track, and baseball. In this way, the Conference will not only give opportunities for personal contact with men who are leaders in modern religious thought, but will also offer a chance for a few days of healthy out-of-door recreation. Under the direction of special teachers...
...speakers this year are exceptional. They include such men as Robert E. Speer, Robert P. Wilder, Charles R. Brown '77, Henry Sloane Coffin, Charles W. Gilkey '03, and George Adams, a British preacher. There will be special gatherings for foreign students, student volunteers and theological students...