Word: sects
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...approach the matter, we fail to see why a university which has been making such rapid strides as Harvard towards a thoroughly non-sectarian and national position should suddenly pause and devote large sums of money, sorely needed in other fields, to the cultivation, for the benefit of one sect, of a study which is already abundantly provided for by the various Christian churches...
...Nation of July 31, Dr. Clarke follows with another letter. He claims that a theology which is not confined to the limits of any sect, nor taught in the interests of any sect, is a non-sectarian theology. In regard to the Harvard Divinity School, he says...
...teach non-sectarian theology, you must teach only the things which no sect rejects. Your only escape from this difficulty lies in throwing down the dogmas before the student, and bidding him choose for himself. We grant that some subjects may be taught in this way, but surely not theology. . . . Few religious men like to see theological teaching converted into an exercise for sharpening the wits, or would like to see young men exposed to the influence of professors who took half a dozen different views of the Trinity and the Atonement...
...seems to me that the College has nothing to do with any religious fast or festival, - Holy Week, Easter, or anything else. It is conducted on a non-sectarian basis, and to change the time of a vacation because it interfered with the religious observances of any particular sect would be contrary to its policy. Even if five sixths of the men in college were Episcopalians, and were dissatisfied with the present time of the vacation, they would have no right, as Episcopalians, to demand a change. If they wish to have the vacations arranged to conform to the festivals...
...that time. Not to mention the different character of the two days, there is surely some difference between leaving a vacation where it is, because, on the whole, it is the best time, and changing it to suit the convenience of those students who belong to a particular sect...