Word: worship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cochin and Mysore were expected to follow the lead of Travancore, but this lead went only a short way toward solving the problem of Untouchability. Travancore is a South Indian State of 5,000,000 total population, of whom 1,765,000 are Untouchables and, although they may now worship in the State's temples, they will continue to be scorned and ostracized by most caste Hindus, even in Travancore. They will continue to earn meagre livelihoods by performing the "degrading tasks" no caste Hindu will touch, such as cleaning latrines, barbering, cobbling, laundering and Cremating. If an orthodox...
...futile attitude of antiquarianism or ancestor-worship that Harvard staked its claim to the educational limelight. The year brought challenges, many of which have been successfully met and conquered. Taking up the gage of increasing public indifference to education, the college has spread its tentacles throughout the country, justifying by national scholarships its position as a national institution. In the top brackets of learning, roving professorships promise well to bridge the gaps that modern specialization has brought in wide fields of scholastic endeavor. The symposia of scholars, gathered in September to disseminate their knowledge over the council board...
...darker mood, at University of Chicago youthful President Robert Maynard Hutchins gloomed: "The world seems to be rushing toward the destruction of liberty of conscience, of worship, of speech, and of thought. . . . This tendency . . . will not be without its effects in our own country. Already we see signs of the growth of bigotry and repression. . . . We see battle lines drawn that may determine the fate of our form of government, and of our generation...
...long abed, early morning worship being for a select few, the Vagabond too old and ragged a fellow for the company. Wistfully musing, till reconciled by the happy thought that religious democracy isn't Puritan and John Harvard was. Felt cheered in my heart, moreover, by prospect of a morning of speeches that even the Vagabond and his merry fellows could understand, after so promiscuous a display of forbidding wisdom...
...hands of the Communists and extreme Socialists and that there was no justice for others. The aims of the National Revolution are to restore peace, justice and democracy with favor to no one class. As far as the Church is concerned we intend to allow complete freedom of worship, but under no conditions to permit the Church to play a part in politics...