Word: sectarianism
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There are 200,000 Protestant congregations in the United States and Canada, served by about 150,000 ministers. There are 200 institutions engaged in the training of ministers. There are four or five Divinity Schools in the United States, non-sectarian in character, which are, as Harvard Divinity School is, integral parts of large universities. There are perhaps twenty or twenty-five more theological schools on independent foundations which profess to maintain academic standards of university level. Below these is a successions of seminaries of lower standards which resolve themselves. Finally into little more than schools of vocational guidance...
...While he traveled his territory (he was a salesman of educational textbooks) he kept his hand in by writing religious mottoes on handy hotel blotters, rebuking girls who smoked, attempting to convert hard-boiled chance acquaintances. He was the strongest man who had ever been to his little sectarian college, and he had an excellent tenor voice, but somehow people did not like George Brush. Although he practically never did a wrong thing he was always getting into trouble, including jail. But his high-principled sincerity usually convinced his detractors that he was crazy and comparatively harmless. George Brush flinched...
...fight destroyed Old Oglethorpe 73 years ago. Founded by Presbyterians at Milledgeville, Ga. in 1835, it was the first sectarian college south of Virginia. In 1861 Poet Sidney Lanier and all its other 100-odd students marched off to war. Its endowment vanished in Confederate bonds, its buildings were burned in Sherman's March to the Sea. Friends tried in vain to revive it when peace came...
...cookies. Zion lace, Zion books and Zion cement it could smile as it would at Wilbur Glenn Voliva's dire prophecies and belief that the earth is soup-plate shaped. But it could not dispute the grim, lap-jowled prophet's absolute mastery of his own tight sectarian world of Zion City, Ill., on the lake shore 40 mi. north of Chicago. Owner of its communal industries and General Overseer of its Christian Catholic Church, Prophet Voliva banned tobacco, liquor, cinemas, profanity, immodest dress and chewing gum from his realm and ruled its 6,000 inhabitants body & soul...
...Hill was called to the Presidency of Antioch College of Yellow Springs, Ohio, to continue the great work of Horace Mann. This period of only two years is portrayed in the biography by many personal letters from and to the President. His troubles with the financial and sectarian situation, eventually leading to his decision to resign, are told in a manner which brings out his great ability and the exceedingly trying conditions under which he had to work. The letters from Hill gave in a way which no amount of second-hand writing can, the true character and nature...