Word: nonsectarianism
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...shining wing and become a library; the dissecting room of The Castle has become a dining hall. Thirty-one major buildings have risen, roads have been built, shrubs planted. Respected academic names and promising younger ones have brought ability and prestige to the result: Brandeis, the first Jewish-founded nonsectarian university in the country...
That milestone is the first on a 70-year-long road. For decades, American Jews have wanted to found a nonsectarian educational institution. They have felt a vague gratitude to the hundreds of colleges founded by other denominations which have admitted Jews, frequently without limitation...
...Harvard Divinity prepares pastors for the churches which are sectarian, as nonsectarian churches are few. Unless a sectarian church sees itself reflected in the viewpoints of a prospective pastor it is likely to look elsewhere. "Prudence" might suggest a kind of sectarian trade school which prapares students for such a market as is available...
...Baby with the Bath." Although the proposed constitutional revision specifically limits tuition grants to nonsectarian private schools, many religious leaders were not so sure it would. By failing to define "nonsectarian," thought they, the revision might conceivably entitle some semisectarian schools to public funds...
...heirs (mostly in-laws) should use $200,000 of his $2,000,000 fortune for charity. They decided in 1879 to back a hospital, adding carefully that it was "to be called the Michael Reese Hospital for all time to come." Also they ruled "that the hospital be nonsectarian, that the sufferers, no matter of what religion or nationality, if found worthy and there be room, be admitted." The site, 29 blocks south of the Loop, was then on the lake shore and in the city's most fashionable residential area. But the district hit the skids, and wealthy...