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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 emphasis on the present-day American church, it represents a new trend in the function...
...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...
...tiis small circle of admirers and was elected to the National Academy in his late 50s. Both were moderately well off. And posthumously both rank high in the select assembly of U. S. old masters. Two exhibitions of Eakins' work and one of Ryder's on view in Manhattan last week served to reassert their stature...
...little talk" coherent is the central position of the Yao family. Through their connections with the Tseng and New families, with honest and corrupt officials, big business, scholars, intellectuals, black sheep, third-generation revolutionists, ruined Mandarins, singsong girls, peasants, the Yao family get an extraordinarily diverse view of the revolutionary history of their time...
Well, the rains come, alright, and the dam breaks, and George Brent flounders around in ten feet of water, and on the whole it's one of the wettest movie-going evenings since "The Hurricane." But unlike "The Hurricane" it was a bit wet from the critical point of view, too. A cast headed by Myrna Loy and Tyrone Power has a right to expect a decent script with which to work. But 20th Century Fox let them down with the script of "The Rains Came." For instance: Brent to Loy, "It's exciting seeing you again." Loy to Brent...