Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Conant defended Harvard's traditionally secular approach to education yesterday morning in an address during the chapel exercises in Memorial Church...
...Among the targets are the tax supported schools and faculties of education. Of those who believe that education must be closely tied to religious instruction, some few are using the present time to condemn all secular education as godless and immoral...
...there was dissent from the first dissent. By the turn of the eighteenth century the orthodoxy of Harvard was considered highly questionable ... by the time we celebrated our 300th anniversary it was widely accepted that a vast number of colleges and universities in America, whatever their denominational, origins, were ... secular institutions. How could it be otherwise in a nation where religious toleration was a necessary condition of survival...
...then sold to the English for 10,000 gold crowns, but it was the English who turned her in to a clerical court (headed by Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais). The court declared her excommunicate, a "limb of Satan," and handed her over to the secular arm, i.e., the English occupation authorities in northern France. The English burned her at the stake...
...Allenby's 1917 offensive, Meinertzhagen was the first staff officer to enter Hebron, from where all the native notables had fled. Looking for some secular or religious dignitary, Meinertzhagen came into the deserted mosque and found a door open, leading into vast, dimly lit souterrains. After a look at the enormous stone cenotaphs buried in dust, the colonel . . . left and finally found a rabbi, from whom to take the town over. Later on, when Meinertzhagen discussed his experience with [Father Hugues] Vincent, the famous Dominican archeologist, it became clear that he had actually been in the mausoleum...