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...Wade College in Cleveland is designed, says the New York Tribune, "for the higher study of the nature of God, and what men know of it, and of the nature of man. Its founder has placed no restriction of sect or of creed upon its teachers. Its object will be to assist, by its library, its lectures, and its other appliances, all persons, of whatever profession or whatever opinion, who want to study any subject regarding man or God, or the relations of man and God with each other. The plans of Wade College do not contemplate any very expensive...
...safe for any such to approach him. A man recently called on him with some manuscripts, professing to be autographs of some of the early Fathers of the church. He exposed the pretensions of several without losing his composure; but when at last the original manuscript of the Athanasian Creed, in the writing of St. Athanasius (!), was produced, he called his visitor's attention to a large club in the corner of the room, and pointed significantly towards the door, by which the terrified man made his escape with some precipitation. We may venture to mention here a piece...
...Governor Butler's explanation the Advertiser says: He knows, and every intelligent person in the United States knows, that the college has departed from its usual custom not on account of his political creed, not on account of the condition or the principles of his supporters, not on account of his qualifications or want of qualifications in the item of learning, but because he is himself a person whose public character and example are inimical to the standards a university is under the highest obligation to approve and inculcate...
...clergy of Providence, R. I., irrespective of creed, held a meeting in that city yesterday afternoon, and took decided action in favor of civil service reform...
...necessary, but perhaps the separation of dormitories might partially effect the same object, especially if more uniform rates of rent were secured. Some one may object that in Germany no such college division exists, and yet men move in cliques of taste and thought and form companionships of creed. But in Germany there are all sorts of societies and bands which answer the purpose equally well...