Word: sectarianism
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...number of catholic spirited World-educators--college professors and students, teachers and preachers, editors and authors, lecturers and reformers who are known to be cosmopolitan in thought and method. An essential condition of all benefactions to public libraries, etc., by Mr. Carnegie is the entire disuse of partisan or sectarian names and dogmas; and the Presentation Copies are proffered in the same cosmopolitan and genuinely catholic spirit. Those who are not and are determined not to become cosmopolitan and catholic spirited in this sense will find no interest in either of these volumes, whether accepted as Presentation Copies or purchased...
...educational and social club for men, managed by wage earners. Its object is to extend to working-men opportunities for elementary, technical, commercial, and higher education through evening classes and lectures, and to bring into mutually helpful contact working-men, students and teachers. It rests on a non-sectarian, non-partisan basis, being open to any man over seventeen years of age regardless of his nationality, creed, or station in life...
...present chapel in 1858. 1886 marked the end of the regular College church, which was supplanted by the present system of a Board of Preachers. Required attendance was abolished; and likewise the former communion services, which have not, we understand, been held since. At first, this new non-sectarian arrangement was maintained with difficulty. Gradually, however, it has become firmly established, and more and more the religious life is centering around the Chapel. Meanwhile the religious spirit has broadened and deepened. Attendance at Chapel has increased until at least a fifteenth of those who might justly be expected to support...
...common consent Easter, primarily a church festival, has marked the opening of a period of social activity. Most of the schools and colleges of the country, whether sectarian or not, have acknowledged this fact and ordained their holidays accordingly. Harvard is one of the notable exceptions. Harvard students who go to homes outside Massachusetts for the week of April nineteenth find that their Yale and Princeton friends and those who are at other institutions have had their good times and are now back at work. The festivities of Easter week have passed, while Harvard with supreme indifference kept them...
...Fitch, D.D. '00, President of the Seminary, accepted the building for the Faculty, and then delivered the address of the afternoon, his subject being "The Seminary and the University." The Seminary during its hundred years residence in Andover had been identified with the sectarian interests of the Congregational church, but now effort must be made to identify it with the learning if Harvard University, the alliance to be academic and not ecclesiastical. He said that for this reason the Faculty should be composed of scholars and not sectarian ministers. He pointed out that the new idea of the teaching...