Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apropos of the student poll about a suitable war memorial, I oppose the suggestion of having a new chapel, (since worship is irretrievably dissociated from Harvard) and also the suggestion of a monument, because such a memorial is at best a rather sterile and lifeless affair...
...pulpits on Sunday morning (this shift of the Sabbath solemnities is a jibing with convenience) the congregations hear lectures hung on current news topics, as do those of many Christian churches. Yet one must note that the pulpit sideshows so currently prevalent are largely eschewed in Jewish houses of worship...
...joyful people crowd to worship their holy image which has returned. The nuns and priests renew their high devotions and the voices of little children are raised in Christmas hymns...
...more thickly populated than most countries of our modern world. The civilization of the Mayas was built up on an abundant reservoir of man power supported by the fertile vegetable growth of the tropics. Our admiration for them must increase when we reflect that their magnificent temples of worship alone were probably made with man power alone, man power wielding tools of stone...
...study has not ossified. The teaching profession today needs men, not walking dictionaries. True scholars, in addition to possessing profound knowledge, are eminently human and their knowledge is human. This human quality, moreover, can never be measured in terms of a Ph.D. And until American colleges abandon their foolish worship of a Ph.D. and substitute for it a combined standard of knowledge and personality, much of what we complacently term "education" will continue to be hollow inane, and futile...