Word: unsectarian
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...influence all their lives. The man of broad religious views objected to them because it divided the Christian house against itself on narrow causes. Second is the semi-denominational college, which is, as a rule, being transformed to an institution yet broader in its policy. Third is the unsectarian college, illustrated by Harvard. Officers of the college at Harvard are appointed without reference to religious opinions, and students are not questioned concerning their religious convictions. Harvard furnishes seats for students in six churches, but technical instruction could not be offered, because the college could not offer a sufficient variety...
...going to the bad. A man comes here to be broadened in his views. not to be taught dogmatically what he shall and what he shall not believe. Our university is founded only to teach men how to think, and not what to think. It must, therefore be unsectarian, but on this account it does not become irreligious. Freedom of worship is a necessary factor in any liberal form of government. And moreover, on the score that the influence here is toward indidelity we emphatically deny the charge. There is every good influence at work here if a man will...
...progress of the Divinity School is described. As to its unsectarian character the report says...
...Harvard Divinity School has again become the theme of discussion, owing to some statements about it in President Eliot's Report. The facts of the case are these, - to put them briefly, - the School aims to be unsectarian, and is not. A writer in the Nation for Feb. 12 points out some of the causes for this discrepancy between the profession and practice there. The course of instruction, while it assumes to give a "free inquiry into theology," in reality obliges every student to follow out prescribed studies, and offers no electives. Owing to this, many members of the School...
...theology as a science. All these institutions . . . exist for the much more practical purpose of training ministers, and most of them ministers for particular denominations. . . . We are sure President Eliot did not intend to be vague or ambiguous when he used the phrase 'theological teaching of a perfectly unsectarian character.' But we are also sure that he would find it difficult now to tell us what such teaching is. We may, therefore, safely set down the Harvard Divinity School as necessarily denominational in its practical workings, whatever character its managers may seek to give it, or may have originally claimed...