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...convention held today at the Divinity School is designed to increase the interest in missions, both foreign and domestic, in the half dozen seminaries of Boston and vicinity. This year for the first time the Alliance, which represents six different religious denominations, meets with the only unsectarian theological school in the country. The list of speakers and live topics announced promise a highly attractive series of meetings. Students who are able to attend any of the three sessions will doubtless be well repaid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/10/1897 | See Source »

...young man then engaged in religious work in the "Lower Poit," in company with a few earnest workingmen of Cambridgeport, engaged a room in the Prospect House building on Massachusetts avenue, near Central Sqare, and organized an association for philanthrophic educational work on a purely non-partisan and unsectarian basis. The name Prospect Union was chosen from the name of the building in which it was located. Classes were formed in a variety of suljects, all taught by students from the University, and lectures were given once a week, usually by a member of the Faculty. Workingmen of Cambridgeport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PROSPECT UNION. | 10/2/1895 | See Source »

While the memorialists remain in the conviction that the revival and continuance of a lecture inconsistent with the unsectarian character and policy of the University must be prejudical, and while they cannot think that the method proposed by the Corporation is one which really carries out the purpose of the founder of the lectures, they see no utility in pressing views which have no likelihood of obtaining the interest and concurrence of the Corporation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Suppression of the Third Dudleian Lecture. | 1/21/1892 | See Source »

...theological faculties in American colleges are as a rule denominational. Harvard, however, although formerly not, has at present an unsectarian faculty, in which there are several divines of Trinitarian denominations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Bryce on American Universities. | 1/7/1889 | See Source »

...policy of the church is to educate its own children. For this purpose it has established all over the United States graded-schools, academies, colleges and seminaries, and it is planning a university. Its line of opposition to public unsectarian institutions of learning is complete at every point. We have, then, two systems of education in our midst, not, however, running in competition, which might benefit both, for the church monopolizes the patronage of its children from the primary school through to the university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Dangers to our Public School System. | 4/5/1886 | See Source »

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