Word: secularism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...McCosh knows, and knew when he accepted the invitation to be present at our quarter-millenium, that Harvard had become the exponent of liberality in religious and secular education; he knew that the experiment had proved a success, or at least, that it had proved an apparent success, both in the increased number of students and the increased wealth and influence of the college. He knew all this as well as any man in America; and of all men in America he was most opposed to, and most afraid of it. It was out of the question, therefore, that...
...church discipline - this was the end for which the college was established. Learning was valued, but it was valued for this end. Never was there a system more clearly conceived, more definitely limited, than that New England Puritanism. The great world of humanity lay around it unfelt, unregarded. The secular world was absorbed, was ignored or denounced. Like a rock in a great sea, rising upon its own foundations, beaten upon by waves of which it took no manner of account. So stands the Puritanism of the seventeenth century; so Harvard College which it built in the midst...
...training. Yet semi-religious and multo religious papers still echo the cry of "Harvard irreligion!" Is it that our alumni are sceptics? More Harvard graduates to-day fill our prominent pulpits than the graduates of any two other colleges in the land. Is it that our teaching is purely secular? Why did we come to Harvard above all other colleges, but to get teaching that was secular, free from the eternal theological dogmas and cant which distinguish so many of our sister-colleges? Is it that the tone of student thought is unhealthy and opposed to more sacred things? Here...
Probably most of our readers have noticed the reports in the Boston papers of President Eliot's recent address before the Unitarian Club on the subject, "Secularization of Education not a Rational End." In this address President Eliot said, "I cannot but think that the policy of secularization, if thoroughly executed, would fail to preserve the public schools, as schools, for well nigh the whole population - which they should be. I cannot but think that the secularization of education is not a rational end to pursue." James Freeman Clarke, on the other hand, who spoke on the same theme before...
...century. Not till several centuries after did counterpoint come into use; it arose from the Gregorian chant. The old Flemish school received an illustration by a gloomy chorus of Josquin de Pres, the contrapuntal church style by a selection from a mass by Palestrina. Next came the popular and secular music especially of the troubadours and minnesingers. Of the English school a very old melody was sung, proving to be a tender, delightful...