Word: sectarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guilt of Innocence. The Defense Attorney tried again. He recalled how the subcontinent had been brought to freedom by good men, nonviolent men, men above superstition and narrow sectarian hatred. How could such evil come from a victory won by moral force alone...
...clock: Morning Prayers in Appleton Chapel. The Memorial Church. Dean Sperry. A non-sectarian, voluntary service held daily, except on Sundays, throughout term time...
...unique character of Harvard's theology instruction has been generally conceded as the cause of poor financial support. The Divinity School faculty preaches no dogma, but rather makes a historical approach to contemporary religions. By thus embracing rabbis to Humanists, it offers a contrast to the sectarian theological schools, which are currently flourishing and growing...
...were predestined to go begging, Harvard divinity history portends the present low tide of endowments. It is true that the University owes its origin to the desire to feed Puritan pulpits and, significantly or not, the first faculty chair was the Holis Professorship of Divinity (1721); but the non-sectarian aspect of a Harvard divinity education can be identified with the College trend toward liberalism, as early as President Leverett's administration in the beginning of the eighteenth century. In fact, the Hollis chair, even though used for Congregationalist ends, was donated by a Baptist...
Peters, a Presbyterian of Pennsylvania Dutch descent, usually conducts the daily non-sectarian chapel service, but thinks that one weakness of his administration has been that he did not emphasize it more. "I would have more religion in our school if I could get away with it. It is hard to make the boys understand: You've got to have something better than a good meal in you to face tomorrow's troubles. You can't become religious overnight if you need God tomorrow...