Word: religion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some explanation of this remarkable circumstance. There was only my name written on a piece of white paper, and the endorsement "Paid 50c.' At last I noticed a newspaper slip pasted inside the white paper. It was a piece of a Sunday Herald, headed "President Eliot's Essay on Religion." Here was, without doubt, the cause of this return to righteousness...
...discussion on "Religion in Colleges" by Presidents McCosh and Eliot, is given in brief on another page. One part of this discussion seems to turn on the meaning of the word "religion." Harvard is non-religious only so far as she is strictly non-sectarian. Princeton is religious, but cannot be said to be non-sectarian. But really religion is, as President Eliot says, "wider, broader, deeper than sectarianism." We believe most strongly that of the three types of American colleges, the "uncompromising denominational," the "semi-denominational," and the non-sectarian, the last is the best, for it can most...
...Wednesday evening the Nineteenth Century Club of New York, held a discussion on "Religion in Colleges." President Eliot and President McCosh, of Princeton, were the principal speakers. President Eliot spoke in the main as follows...
...seats for students in six churches, but technical instruction could not be offered, because the college could not offer a sufficient variety of instruction to satisfy the radically different religious views of the students. The advantage of the non-sectarian college is that under its wing, all forms of religion are safe. When young men make a choice, it is conscious one. They learn that the doctrines and rules of living, common to all sects, have more practical importance than the doctrines about which sects differ. What, on the other hand, are the disadvantages of an unsectarian college...
President McCosh, of Princeton, in reply: "There is an increasing tendency to leave out religion in the teaching of our colleges, and as a consequence the character of the highly educated men who graduate from our colleges and erect such a powerful influence on the community is becoming irreligious. It is agreed that morality can not be taught without religion, so let religious truth be distinctly taught. The term, 'non-sectarian college,' practically means this: 'All Knowledge Imparted Here Except Religious.' The position that young men are likely to take under such a loose, half-hearted religious system, is that...