Word: nonsectarianism
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...have thought he had done enough for the illiterate mountain folk he had come to serve. On a desolate tract of land donated by Cassius Clay, he had established a whole new community at the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains in Kentucky. He had dug the well, built the nonsectarian church, opened the one-room schoolhouse in 1855. But now, he wrote later in the American Missionary, "we need a college here . . . an antislavery, anti-caste, anti-rum, antitobacco, anti-sectarian, pious school under Christian influence, a school that will furnish the best possible facilities for those with small means...
...state issue, however small, is like a hot scent to a coon hound. When Lawyer Paul Blanshard-whose bestselling American Freedom and Catholic Power launched him on a career of Catholic-needling-learned that the children in his own town of Thetford were getting a weekly half-hour of nonsectarian religious instruction in the classroom, he promptly went into action. Blanshard formally asked Education Commissioner A. John Holden Jr. to notify all Vermont's schools that "the teaching of religion in public schools as part of the regular schedule of instruction" was unlawful and must be stopped. Last week...
...professors--appointed Cornelius deW. Hastie '52, a first year student at the Episcopal Theological School as the graduate secretary, with the Corporation's approval. His appointment came in the face of earlier assurance by Provost Buck that the new secretary would not have any denominational affiliations, having been nonsectarian in the past...
...Appleton Club, originally a nonsectarian group for those students interested in religion but not attached to any specific denomination exists at present "only in the files," because of lack of sufficient support and interest from the sponsors. The officers are waiting for the appointment of the new Preacher at Memorial Church in order to work with him to build the group around the church and it proposed activities...
...President Eisenhower gave permission to the Lions Foundation of Denver to name a Lions-sponsored nonsectarian chapel in downtown Denver "the Eisenhower Chapel"; at New York City's Idlewild Airport, ground-breaking ceremonies were held for a Roman Catholic chapel, to be known as "Our Lady of the Skies." ¶ Accepting a "Citizen of the Year" award from the Jewish War Veterans in Hartford, Conn., former Mayor Thomas J. Spellacy, 73, a leading Roman Catholic layman, called attention to a long-forgotten fact: in 1814 the Connecticut state legislature took over a $20,000 fund belonging to the Episcopal...