Word: sectarianism
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...present day and more particularly the college youth is of godless generation and that universities are but hotbed of atheism might be found in the collection of Phillips Brooks House addresses which Scribners announces for publication under the title of "Religion and Modern Life". Although in no sense sectarian in their appeal these talks, given by men prominent in the University, have managed to draw audiences--perhaps not large but at least representative--which have listened respectfully, unconscious of any difference in ideals between themselves and the speakers...
...must be known to be a Progressive with a big P, free from ambiguous associations. He must be free from sectional and sectarian appeal, free from religious or political narrowness...
...annual Christmas greetings are sent to five hundred graduates of Harvard engaged in educational, evangelical, agricultural and medical work abroad, regardless of their religious affiliations. Our educational project, the Daily Vacation Bible School, which we support each summer for the children of Cambridge, is conducted by a non-sectarian organization, its faculty is selected on a non-sectarian basis and the school is actually attended by Catholics and Protestants alike...
Meantime Lincoln Memorial University, near the junction of Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia, an institution founded in 1897 without any "trumpet blast" but with a quiet, non-sectarian religious purpose and with the idea of carrying to four and one half million Appalachian mountaineers some of the enlightenment for which Abraham Lincoln, wilderness boy, so hankered-Lincoln Memorial University issued a dignified statement to the public that it needed a million dollars to go on with its work. To describe the handicaps it was working under with inadequate buildings and endowment, it quoted a most Lincolnian remark addressed...
...that Sarah Lawrence College would open in 1928 for some 250 young ladies. To make them appreciate their opportunities, tuition would be $1,500 per annum (no expenses to be borne by endowment). They would be instructed in liberal arts only-to inculcate interest in right social behavior, non-sectarian religion, non-partisan politics, good morals and the esthetic consumption of leisure hours by useful and becoming "hob-bies." These aims, it was judged, could be compassed in two years and the New York Board of Regents had been persuaded to issue an irregular* charter, for the first "junior college...