Word: godlessness
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...gone, not only to Cambridge, but to Emmanuel College in particular. And having seen the evils of prescribed religious exercises, John Harvard omitted any such prescription in the bequest upon which Harvard College was founded. The alarm which many of the colonists felt at the thought of this "godless university" resulted in the foundation of Yale, intended to pour forth a stream of "untainted Calvinists". Since that time, according to a visiting Englishman of the nineteenth century, Yale men have always been horrified by the irreverence of Cambridge, while Harvard men inevitably regard the pious Elis as praying hypocrites...