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...discussion on "Religion in Colleges" by Presidents McCosh and Eliot, is given in brief on another page. One part of this discussion seems to turn on the meaning of the 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...
President McCosh said at the beginning of his address, that he would not "compel students to attend religious services." Why then did he afterwards regret that "upward of eight hundred students at Harvard have asked that they be not required to attend prayers?" We cannot see the distinction between "compelling students to attend religious services" and their being "required to attend prayers," that Dr. McCosh seems anxious to make. Either there is some important distinction, or Princeton's president has been grossly illogical...
...Wednesday evening the Nineteenth Century Club of New York, held a discussion on "Religion in Colleges." President Eliot and President McCosh, of Princeton, were the principal speakers. President Eliot spoke in the main as follows...
President Eliot will debate with President McCosh to-night at the Nineteenth Century Club. The subject will be "Religion at Colleges...
...close of the article Dr. McCosh draws a comparison between the American philosophy desired and the power of our agricultural products to feed the nations of Europe, saying that soon those countries will come to us for a philosophy as they now do for our produce. This is a "consummation devoutly to be wished," but which we can never expect, for the mercantile spirit that is so powerful in America to-day is not the one on which a philosophy that is destined to permeate all the peoples of the earth can be built. America has yet to appreciate...