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...able to talk like this anymore). A lot of history happened there, a lot of food is grown there, and a lot of the better college football and basketball teams play there. It’s the Heartland. So instead of Cancún or the Keys or even godless New York, it feels appropriate to make a pilgrimage out to Kansas...

Author: By Hyung W. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Putting the “Heart” in Heartland | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

Since Gomes’ arrival on campus in 1970, the religious climate at Harvard has seen significant changes. When Harvard stopped requiring students to attend chapel daily in 1886, the University earned the moniker “Godless Harvard” from counterparts Yale and Princeton Universities. Yale stopped the requirement in 1926, while Princeton ceased the practice...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Reverend Gomes Prepares For 2012 Departure | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

...excesses of political correctness, fanned by what commentator Max Blumenthal called a "ratings bonanza for right-wing media." The last to wage war on Christmas were probably the Puritans, who in the 17th century banned Yuletide festivities on the grounds that they didn't square with Scripture. For a godless conspiracy, those are some pious roots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brief History: The War on Christmas | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

...GODLESS HARVARD?...

Author: By Jessie J. Jiang and Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Christianity Sees Shifting Place | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

...over the course of the next century, Enlightenment ideals, which posed strong critiques against religion, found substantial intellectual support at Harvard, so much so that Puritan minister Cotton Mather, class of 1678, described the school as “godless Harvard...

Author: By Jessie J. Jiang and Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Christianity Sees Shifting Place | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

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