Word: religion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Faunce said in substance, that although he had heard there was a chilling atmosphere toward Christianity at Harvard, what he had found was the very reverse. The Herald article, although distinctly contradicting itself, stated that Dr. Faunce had said that there was at Harvard a chilling atmosphere toward religion...
...next year, would be similar to Holden Chapel in appearance and would stand in the corner behind Holworthy and Stoughton and in a line with Harvard and the Chapel. Dr. Peabody dwelt upon the growth of religious life in the University and cautioned the men against thinking that religion was not active here merely because much was not said about it among the students themselves...
...Crothers, the last speaker, said in brief: It seems to me to be one of the greatest characteristics of Harvard University that it is possible to speak to the whole University on religion. The University accepts religion as fundamental and necessary in human life. It does, however, ignore the dissensions that have marred its fair face. Preachers do not come here to contradict each other, but to unite in large and great aims, to give a dignified and fundamental presentation of religion to young men whose minds are still in solution and whose aims are still unfixed...
...board of preachers. Dean Hodges explained the relation of the morning chapel prayers to the church and deplored the sectarian prejudices against what are simply the gatherings of students as if for family prayer. The Rev. Dr. Harris of Andover, spoke on the present attitude of intellectual men toward religion as compared with that of a century...
...said of the Apostles that they overthrew the existing social conditions, but what they really did was to change the relations between religion and material interests. We need reformers of this sort, who will see to it that religion is not placed below business, and that the social order is not inverted...