New Britain herald., 1926-06-14
DEGREE AT TRINITY
 !. FOR CHAS. 5. SMITH
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is based upon a misapprehension which ought not to obtain among intelligent people, said President Robert F.. Einson Of Western Re- serve university in the address at the tooth commencement exercises ot Trinity college today.
 Education and religion in this country began as companions and twin handmaidcns in the cause of national upbuilding" President Vinson said, "bnt as the years have gone by there has developed a difference both as 10 the content and the objective of the educa- tional process which seems to in- dicate that there are two kinds of education, one sacred and the other secular, one true and the other false, until there is wide spread popular notion that if not sooner. certainly at the college door. American boys and girls must choose one or the other. We can- not afford to recognize this unnat- ural and impossible diremption.
 Both Arc Acceptable
 'The misapprehension of which I spoke lies in the assumption that religion and science are con- mensurables, SO that our choice must be religion or science. We shall certainly fail to come 10 any whole world view so long as we draw the materials Of our conccp- ton from one or the other instead of from both taken together. Such an issue ought never to have been joined for science bereft of the spiritual forces operative in re- ligion would as quickly lead us 10 q hopeless materialism as would religion subject us 10 the pains of fanatacism and superstition with out the knowledge which science brings.
 Religion Is quite independent of any particular hypothesis of world origin, or construction. or develop ment. There is something within us that protests against such view and recoils from a religious faith that finally rests its case either upon the outworking of scientific hypothesis or the statutory enact ments Of a legislature.
 We must learn that material ism and religion or spirituality are not inherent in the scientific hy- pothess of world origin, but are in the souls of the men who view these hypotheses.
 The scientific analysis Of the world, while not yet complete, has gone far enough to call for q new day for both philosophy and re-. iigion. and until these come in and do their work upon these materials, there will be no glory in them and the spirit of man will be none the richer for all this scientific pro- gress. The more we know of nature, the more we need the application of it to this creative spirit which finds In the increasing knowledge of nature and the perfection of it's arrangement only fresh cause for its adoratlon of Him who made it all.
 Effect on Younger Generation
 'The younger generations which have been coming on and passing through the churches and univer- sities while this controversy wages have been made the butt of much I1fNF1t-nr1 t1n {,,J experienced q breakdown of ciyili- zation, accompanied by an unloos- ing of passion which has left the world exhausted and reckless. Our cure for this has been the framing of moral codes suited to various degrees of intelligence and 6 great CT emphasis upon education. The return 10 American life Of the i strength and integrity of the Puri- | tan character would be Of all na- tional acquisitions the most de- sirable and satisfactory. But such character can only be produced by i the combination of the forces rep resented in the intellectual and re- | l!gious life Of the nation.
 "The essence of the present situation distinctly calls for a new Renaissance. a rebirth of freedom from old formulas, a rebirth of ac- ceptance Of new ideas, q rebirth of reverence for the permanently true in the old convictions and faiths of men, q rebirth of the placement of man in the wider horizons which are his. The university of today and the civilization of the future must have place with equal honor for chapel, library and laboratory"
 Forty-fve degrees in courses were conferred at the commence m nnf nrnrntrnr