Word: sectarianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Auburn's most distinguished residents, including Phillips Brooks, President Eliot, Julia Ward Howe, Charles Sumner, Louis Agassiz, and Edwin Booth. Others, such as Amy Lowell, Francis Parkman, Josiah Royce, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, were further removed to be sure, but there seemed to be no class distinction in non-sectarian Mount Auburn, and most definitely, there was no "wrong side of the tracks." Spruce Ave., while invigorating, seemed exhausting, and we felt our temples throb as we struggled with the rugged terrain...
...Rosenthal measures several instances, against a profession of non-sectarian principle, and concludes that Brandeis is guilty of "sincerity bred hypocrisy." The three chapels, he points out, appear equal in size but in fact differ in capacity, the Jewish chapel holding twice as many as the others. It is alleged that Brandeis also violates its ideals "negatively" by luring non-Jewish students with scholarships...
...first remarks made by Tito was: "Zachariades has got to go." Said Bulganin: "Don't worry. Time will take care of things." Last week time caught up with 53-year-old Zachariades. The Cominform announced that he had been found "guilty of serious political mistakes of a sectarian nature" and "incorrect Leftist policy during the Greek people's struggle during 1945-49." Dropped from the leadership (but not yet expelled from the party), Zachariades was replaced by 65-year-old Apostolos Grozos, a virtual unknown...
...Joseph I. Arnold, Ph.D. '34, criticizing President Pusey's "policy of filling the Divinity School Faculty with 'committed men.'" Arnold's conception of "commitment" is fuzzy indeed. He is also blind to the fact that one can be committed, and yet not view such a commitment as a narrow "sectarian mold...
...Most divinity schools are frankly sectarian where committed men generation after generation brand students as indelibly as possible. We had hoped our "revitalized" School, free from sectarian restraints because staffed with men who had not by commitment subordinated themselves to any sect or sectarian points of view, would be thoroughly revitalized and lead an advance toward higher forms of religious education and life...