Word: sectarianism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Oberlin, each graduated eight; Harvard, Union, Princeton, Amherst, Washington and Jefferson, and Wesleyan, each six; Dartmouth, Brown, and Hameden-Sidney, each five; Michigan, Virginai, and De Pauw Universities, each four; Bowdoin, Dickinson, Rochester, Bethany and Pennsylvania colleges, each three. Nearly one-half of the number of colleges are non-sectarian. Of the denominational colleges 41 are Methodist Episcopal, 36 Baptist, 24 Presbyterian, 14 Congregational, 9 Christian, 8 Lutheran and 7 Episcopalian. Forty-three of the presidents were educated at the college over which they preside. One hundred and ten of the institutions listed are known as universities...
...college of William and Mary at Virginia, influenced by the invasion of the normal idea in the South, has now become a non-sectarian. The courses have been greatly changed and the college has a decidedly "normal" trend. Every student is obliged to teach two years in some public school in the State, and in return his tuition fees are paid as long as he remains at the college. The degree of Licentiate of Instruction is conferred after the completion of the first two years. The college numbers at present...
...Harvard cheers. He said that what impressed him most as he looked around at the guests was the diversity of views held by the Harvard men present. He believed that the college did not teach men to think alike. Since the war Harvard has ceased to be local and sectarian, for every denomination and every school of economy is represented...
...answer to the question "Why has Harvard so poor a reputation in the country at large," President Eliot said that, in his opinion, it was largely owing to religious grounds. Forty years ago Harvard was a sectarian college belonging to the Unitarians, who were then greatly disliked by other denominations. Although Harvard is no longer sectarian, religious hatred still makes men ready to believe anything bad which may be said of it, while they refuse to credit any representations to the contrary. Then, too, we have more rich men's son's here than any other college possesses, and rich...
...that man could ask for in the way of libraries, apparatus, etc., are thronged with students. But there is something better yet at Harvard. It takes more than money to make a college-that is, a college of the future. Wisdom cannot be bought. Experience costs time and tears. Sectarian colleges, and probably all others, have their squabbling age, an age of hair-pulling and scratching, an age of petty jealousies, rivalries and quarrels. If any man doubts that, let him come here and read the story of Harvard's childhood. It took two hundred years to outgrow...