Word: religion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...usual in Appleton Chapel at 11 o'clock. On Sunday, December 28, the Reverend Maxwell Savage, D. D., Minister of the Church of the Unity in Worcester, will conduct the services, and on Sunday, January 4, Dean Charles Reynolds Brown, D. D., head of the Yale School of Religion, will be the preacher...
...Thirty or forty years ago there was the same discussion of academic freedom as today, but then the conflict waged about Darwin. Many earnest persons argued that no college professor should be allowed to support the Darwinian theory lest the young college man lose his religion. The investigation of evolution continued, however; the Darwinians won, and no one now contends that the results have been fatal to religion or morality...
Professor Hocking was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1873, was graduated from Harvard in 1901, took the Harvard degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. during the next three years, and began his teaching career as instructor in the History and Philosophy of Religion at the Andover Theological Seminary. Since then he has served successively as instructor and assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of California, as assistant professor and professor at Yale, and as professor of Philosophy at the University, where he has been since September, 1914. He is the author of "The Meaning of God in Human Experience...
...Alford Professorship of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity is one that has been made eminent by the many distinguished men that have occupied it. It was endowed in 1789 by Edmund Trowbridge, of the class of 1728, and Richard Cary of 1763, executors of the will of John Alford who died in 1761. The first two holders of the title were Levi Frisbie and Levi Hedge. James Walker, 1814, occupied the chair from 1838 to 1853 when he was elected President of the University. Francis Bowen '33 followed him. In 1859 George Herbert Palmer '64 was appointed: after...
...Reverend Charles R. Brown, Dean of the School of Religion and Pastor of the University Church at Yale, will address the members of the Freshman class at the sixth Monday night meeting in Smith Halls Common Room tonight at 7 o'clock. Dean Brown is the author of several books for young men, among them "The Modern Man's Religion" and "The Young Man's Affairs...