Word: nonsectarianism
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...when the Kentucky legislature passed a law forbidding Negroes and whites to attend the same schools, little nonsectarian Berea College had to dismiss its handful of Negro students. Last month, after 46 years, the legislature changed its mind. With the law amended, 95-year-old Berea (enrollment: 1,148), whose president is Francis S. Hutchins, younger brother of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins (see above), became the first Kentucky college to announce that it would welcome Negroes back...
...says President Abram Sachar, "we had nothing but a blueprint and a prayer." The blueprint was the work of a group of wealthy U.S. Jews who raised an initial $1,500,000 to set up a university that was to be sponsored by Jews but was to be nonsectarian in faculty and student body. The founders* took over the 100-acre campus of defunct Middlesex University, hired 50-year-old Historian Sachar, former national director of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations, as president, and opened Brandeis' doors with 107 freshmen...
...representatives of 40 U.S. and Canadian denominations talked and listened to each other. In the end, they firmly rejected parochial schools. The council recommended: 1) that Protestant parochial schools be discouraged as "a serious threat" to public education and democracy; 2) that the cultural and nonsectarian aspects of religion be taught through such subjects as history and literature in the public school curriculum; 3) that weekday religious education on a "released time" basis be continued...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward Joseph Flanagan, 61, bluntspoken, kindly director of Boys Town, Neb.; in Berlin, Germany, where he had gone to advise the U.S. Army on youth problems. Irish-born Father Flanagan founded Boys Town in 1921 as a nonsectarian home for delinquents and orphans (his creed: "There is no such thing...
...problem had never come up before, in all the 103 years that Ohio's little Baldwin-Wallace College has been going. Though run by Methodists, it welcomed students of all faiths: its chapel was compulsory but nonsectarian, and one of every ten of its students was a Roman Catholic. One day recently a Catholic coed paid a visit to neighboring St. John's College. She was worried. Was it proper, she asked a Catholic professor, for her to take the compulsory philosophy of religion course at Baldwin-Wallace...