Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard's most eminent scientists who are among the most sincerely religious men I know", he said. "Such professors are not attempting to unsettle the religious convictions of their pupils. They are merely trying to show them the modern point of view. They are seeking to show how religion expresses the highest values in our day just as it stood for the best that men saw in other days...
...Addison, professor of the History of Religion in the Episcopal Theological School will lecture Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock on the subject, "What is Religion?" The talk will be given in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, and is the first of a series of Sunday afternoon lectures on religion for the year...
...Sunday, November 24, F. B. Sayre, Professor of Law, will discuss "Religion and Life Today". The following week, T. N. Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, will have for a subject "How Good Does One Need to Be?" He will be followed by Kirsopp Lake, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, talking on "Some Lessons from the History of Religion". The concluding lecture of the first half of the series will be delivered by Mr. A. D. Nock, fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, England...
...astronomy, physics, biology, lengthy strides have been made in the last 20 years toward the realization that man knows less and less about more and more. Scientists to whom science is more than an enthralling game are consequently ''turning back." the Pragmatists to Philosophy, the mystics to Religion...
...confused with his son John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, famed biochemist of Cambridge University, twice-wounded onetime member of the Black Watch, who, like his father, observes the subtle linkage between science, philosophy, ethics, religion...