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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sort of parental restriction which the Bursar has imposed upon us, in dictating whom we are to employ, is foreign to the whole spirit of the College, and is a remnant of that system of petty annoyance which young men hope to have done with when they leave boarding-school...
...Neither the Harvard Divinity School, nor any divinity school in this country or in England, exists simply for the cultivation of theology as a science. All these institutions . . . exist for the much more practical purpose of training ministers, and most of them ministers for particular denominations. . . . We are sure President Eliot did not intend to be vague or ambiguous when he used the phrase 'theological teaching of a perfectly unsectarian character.' But we are also sure that he would find it difficult now to tell us what such teaching is. We may, therefore, safely set down the Harvard Divinity School...
DURING the months of July and August a discussion was carried on in the Nation in regard to the Harvard Divinity School, which attracted much attention, and called forth a number of letters on each side. The main question at issue was, whether the Divinity School was an unsectarian institution or not. As this is a question which has important bearings on the whole character of the University, a short resume of some of the arguments put forward on each side is given below...
...Judging from President Eliot's remarks, in his address at the Commencement Dinner of his own College, and from the successful efforts he has recently made to secure large donations for the Harvard Divinity School, we fear it would be difficult to show the incorrectness of the popular impression that Harvard College is really associated with the Unitarian body, . . . and therefore not in the strict sense of the term undenominational...
...definition of 'non-sectarian theology,' describing in detail the manner in which it is taught, and the view it takes of such questions as the Atonement, the Trinity, etc., . . . and telling us whether the chair or chairs from which it is to be taught in the Harvard Divinity School can be or will be filled by Congregationalists, or Episcopalians, or any body but Unitarians. Some explanation of this kind is due both to the subscribers to the endowment and to parents throughout the country who are asked to consider the College undenominational...