Word: sectarian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...education has failed." What is striking about the book, coming from the President of the oldest American university, is that his field of speculation and interest is so much larger than the mere field of education. Fifty years ago such a book would have been a narrow if not sectarian performance; today the essayist is no mere educator, but a man of the world, an administrator, the executive, representative head of a corporation so important, so closely connected with the life of the country, as to make him a public character; a man whose function it is to speak...
Although it is to be regretted that the original plans for a Phillips Brooks Memorial have had to be modified to such an extent, we are glad that Harvard is to commemorate one of her greatest graduates in a creditable manner. Any institution to provide for some merely sectarian need we are sure would not have found favor in the eyes of Bishop Brooks, but to have a religious house at Harvard on a non-sectarian basis was a plan which he heartily approved of and encouraged. In its acquisition the religious societies are most fortunate and it is incumbent...
...services was held last evening in Appleton Chapel. Dr. Peabody conducted the services, and the sermon was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Moxom of Springfield, a member of the retiring board of preachers. Dean Hodges explained the relation of the morning chapel prayers to the church and deplored the sectarian prejudices against what are simply the gatherings of students as if for family prayer. The Rev. Dr. Harris of Andover, spoke on the present attitude of intellectual men toward religion as compared with that of a century...
...announced in today's Calendar, the first serice will be held in Appleton Chapel tomorrow at 7.30. The well established custom of obtaining eminent clergymen of various denominations and coming from different sections of the country will as usual be adhered to, in order to emphasize the non-sectarian character of the services...
...service and morning prayers next week the yearly exercises in Appleton Chapel will begin. As usual the board of University preachers has been chosen from the most distinguished ministers throughout the country, some of whom serve in this capacity for the first time. As a result of the non-sectarian plan of conducting the chapel, nowhere else will there be found such a succession of men who are leaders in their respective denominations. To hear them from day to day and to meet them personally as is possible here in Cambridge is a privilege which cannot be too highly appreciated...