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...year after Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed went back to become a Doctor of Divinity, it became extinct. This made Dr. Goodspeed sad and thoughtful; he saw the need for a successor to his small and defunct alma mater, a successor which should be larger, intellectually more potent, better endowed, nonsectarian. He therefore went to John Davison Rockefeller, in 1889 already a famed financier, and explained to him why Chicago needed a university, why such a university deserved strong financial support. After listening to Dr. Goodspeed, Mr. Rockefeller said that he would contribute $600,000 if other persons would...
...smallish town, such as Des Moines was in 1881, of which the essential function is to serve a surrounding population of farmers, it is hard to discover what types of higher education are really in demand. Drake, organized as a nonsectarian, co-educational plant, began by borrowing the six-year-old Law School of Simpson College at nearby Indianola, Iowa, and absorbing a five-year-old Iowa Medical College. These, plus a Liberal Arts School, made Drake a "university." In 1882 a department of pharmacy was added. In 1887, the Iowa College of Physicians was affiliated and the next year...
...Church. Tuesday afternoons this Lenten season, children come flocking to the Church of the Ascension, Manhattan. They are coming to their own Children's Church, coming to hear Rev. John W. Suter Jr. talk to them in simple and understandable terms about religion and ideals. Their service is nonsectarian, has the support of five churches working in the Washington Square district-First Presbyterian, Washington Square Methodist, Judson Memorial Baptist, Grace Church and Church of the Ascension...
...cannot understand why you published the sentiments expressed in that letter. That you should soil the "nonsectarian, nonpartisan" pages of TIME with the "German Kultur" of Karl Busch is beyond the comprehension of any right-thinking American. It might be well to assure Busch that none of us wish to share German glory. He is apparently unable to understand that any real man will give honor where honor is due. We all respect men of the type of Baron Richthofen even though we cannot always respect the cause to which they devote themselves...
During 1924, there are 954 women studying medicine, or 73 less than last year. The percentage of women to all medical students is 5.4. In 1906 there were 162 medical colleges in the U. S., of which 130 were nonsectarian, 19 homeopathic, 8 eclectic, 3 physiomedical, 2 nondescript. The numbers have, been gradually reduced so that in 1924 there are 73 nonsectarian, 2 homeopathic, 1 eclectic, 3 nondescript. Of the nondescript colleges, two are intimately connected with osteopathy, and one intimately associated with the notorious diploma-mill ring which was the subject of recent exposure...