Word: sectarianism
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...chairman. Then the Board announced that Dr. Dixon Ryan Fox, 46, Columbia University history professor (Decline of Aristocracy in the Politics of New York; An Outline of Early American History) would be inaugurated in June as Union's 12th president. Union, founded in 1795 as the first non- sectarian college in the U. S., is currently excited about its new Plan of Education, which split its 18 departments into four autonomous divisions: languages & litera ture, social studies, mathematics & science engineering...
...almost from the first. Moscow wins the debate, the Social Democrats lived up to their reputations, made the customary strategical mistakes; but--was the debate worth winning? The Kremlin has scored its point, but it has lost Vienna. Surely it would have been more worthwhile to discard this prim sectarian attitude and to have played ball with the Socialists, more worthwhile to cooperate, underground if necessary, with the Austrian government and to bring all possible pressure for direct, speedy action to bear upon the Central Committee, rather than smugly to tell the defeated Viennese, "We told...
...guests of his Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights* examples of Nazi tricks to evade the boycott. On a glove wrathfully displayed by Lawyer Untermyer the words "Made in Germany" appear only on the inner surface of one finger tip. Holding up a doll, Boycotter Untermyer cried : "You have to undress this lady to determine the country of her origin. That is not very nice. The stamp 'Made in Germany' is under her dress. Such tactics are smuggling!" To put the anti-Nazi efforts further on a non-sectarian plane, Gentile James G. McDonald...
...Premier Manuel Azana has for two years led his Socialist Coalition Government in a rapid renovation of Spain's semifeudal society, steeped in piety, vised by the landowners. He was determined that no one should stop him until he had accomplished two things: 1) the substitution of non-sectarian schools for the Catholic Church schools that have taught Spaniards all they know for half a millennium; 2) the dispossession of the great grandee landowners. His great weapon is the Socialist labor unions of 1,000,000 well-organized men, ready to strike at the drop of Premier Azana...
...Shinto ("The Way of the Gods") is Japan's indigenous religion, a ceremonial system of nature-worship and ancestor-worship. It contains little of theology save belief in immortality, but acquired a religious guise during its long subordination to Buddhism. There are two forms of Shintoism, one non-sectarian and ancillary to the State, the other sectarian and divided into 13 officially-recognized groups, plus many smaller, unofficial ones. Keynote of Shinto belief is to venerate the Sun Goddess, Great Ancestress of the Imperial House. To pray for the welfare of the Japanese Emperor is to pray...