Word: american
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have served to bring to memory many half-forgotten events of the war period. The series of war papers in the Century have been of incalculable worth in rendering our generations more familiar with the great strife which it was not our fortune to witness. The increased interest in American history manifested by our undergraduates warrants us in the assertion that another course of lectures, similar in scope to that we have mentioned, would be extremely acceptable. We recommend the matter to the attention of the Historical Society, trusting that it may be found possible to make arrangements...
...word "religion." Harvard is non-religious only so far as she is strictly non-sectarian. Princeton is religious, but cannot be said to be non-sectarian. But really religion is, as President Eliot says, "wider, broader, deeper than sectarianism." We believe most strongly that of the three types of American colleges, the "uncompromising denominational," the "semi-denominational," and the non-sectarian, the last is the best, for it can most successfully accomplish the highest ends of an institution of learning...
...together, there is no dominant religious sect, and the probability is that there will never be one. In this state of affairs it is manifestly unjust, and certainly impossible, to force any one set of religious views upon a community so divided in opinion. There are three types of American colleges, distinguished from each other by their religious policies. First, the uncompromising denominational college, in which graduates and instructors have been under one influence all their lives. The man of broad religious views objected to them because it divided the Christian house against itself on narrow causes. Second...
...short article appears in the February number of the magazine of American History, on "College Bred Presidents," by Pavey, Yale...
...free trade opinions, and that almost no opportunity is given for a forcible representation of the protectionist view of the tariff, it seems no more than fair than an opportunity should be given to the students to form an impartial judgment on a question of such vast importance to American citizens. It seems to us that other colleges would do well to follow the example set by Yale in this respect...