Word: nonsectarianism
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...Brandeis. the nation's first Jewish-sponsored nonsectarian liberal arts uni versity, has in only 14 years created a major U.S. campus in Waltham, Mass. Now it needs a war chest to lure top scholars, notably in its weak departments of economics, philosophy, comparative languages. The library of 300,000 volumes needs strengthening, as does research in humanities. The new grant, says President Abram Sachar. "does for our economic stability what Phi Beta Kappa accreditation did for our academic stature...
...Coed and nonsectarian, American College in Paris is a two-year liberal arts school that requires college board aptitude exams for entrance, takes only students who aim for later transfer to first-class
...Leading them were seven Bostonians, all of them immigrants or the sons of immigrants, who sought a way to give thanks to the country where they had prospered. In 1946 the seven launched a campaign to found Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. - the nation's first Jewish-sponsored nonsectarian liberal arts university.* Seldom has a major U.S. campus blossomed so fast and so rewardingly...
...they have a hard time getting anybody to do it. But last week the planners could chalk up action in three widely separated areas: > Tackling the problem of the old and lonely, the 2,300,000-member United Church of Christ announced plans to build a string of nonsectarian "retirement centers" in downtown areas of cities, in villages-and near resort communities. The projects, for which the church hopes to get longterm, low-interest federal loans, will be designed for oldsters over 62 whose incomes are as low as $1,800 a year. In Lorain County. Ohio, for example...
...group of undergraduates at the University are working to establish a nonsectarian student center in Cambridge along the lines of the International Student Hospice in New York City...