Word: sectarianism
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...last evening under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein, "only ignorance or hatred can deny that the German people engaged in this war, have presented a spectacle of consummate devotion and self-surrender in waging it. With its very outbreak, all petty class prejudices, all sectional jealousies, all sectarian rivalry, and all industrial antagonisms seem to have been swept away. In a supreme moment, the whole nation actually felt...
...Promotion of Theological Education in Harvard University," the first class graduated from the school in December, 1817; nine years later the money had been secured for the building of Divinity Hall. For a full century the school has maintained its high ideals of scholarship and its non-sectarian spirit, the latter enjoined by the constitution, which provides that "every encouragement be given to the serious, impartial and unbiased investigation of Christian truth, and that no assent to the peculiarities of any denominations of Christians shall be required of either instructor or students...
...appeal for subscriptions for the extension of the means of theological education in Cambridge. The letter states that the President of the University has officially declared that "neither the object nor the consequence, 'of enlarging the theological funds of the University, is to be the communication of a sectarian character to that institution, or to inculcate the peculiarities of any sect,' but that the beneficent and laudable design is 'to place students of divinity under the most favorable circumstances for inquiring for themselves into the doctrines of Revelation...
...Defensive," convincingly refutes recent and wearisome attackers of Harvard, showing with pleasantly satirical arguments that Harvard has the virtues and defects of our country and time--a condition she cannot escape, and be human. Mr. R. D. Skinner tries to answer the dicult question: "Can Harvard be Non-Sectarian"? and though he sucseeds in proving the expected answer, his statements are not always clear. It is a stimulating subject calling for broad treatment. The undergraduate as spoken of by Mr. Skinner is perhaps too sensitive and narrow-minded, and the sooner he can absorb all sorts of theories of life...
...Fortunately none of these institutions is under denominational control. This is not due to change but to the unusual good sense of the founders and their successors. Yet while free from sectarian control, these colleges have had close ties with the Congregationalists and Presbyterians especially, and have always maintained a healthy religious life among their students...