Word: sectarianism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...offered to teach English in a college in Japan. The name of the institution in this instance is withheld on request, but will be furnished at the Appointment Office. A number of positions are open as well on the staff of the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut, a non-sectarian organization. The following five calls have been received from the Fukien Union University; teacher of Botany, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, General Physics, Electrical Physics. The teaching would be done in English. In view of the payment of all traveling expenses in each of the Far East positions, the period of service...
...Appointment Office is receiving a number of calls for teachers from church schools and from non sectarian preparatory schools, both boarding and country day institutions. The requirements are almost uniformly athletics, music, and dramatics. Mathematics and science are the subjects most frequently called for, but there is also a great demand for men with historical and economic training sufficient to lead classes in citizenship. Inexperienced men without preparation for teaching are less and less in demand. Opportunities are offered for teaching in the following states: California, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Rhode...
...Brooks House will begin next week. It has been found in all belligerent countries that men are turning more and more to theological thought, especially in the centers of learning, which may indicate that groups of this nature will be more successful this year than before. They are non-sectarian, held in the interests of no denomination, with a purpose of simply giving men an opportunity for men to get together and to talk over religious questions. The Bible will be studied if the members so desire...
...last evening under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein, "only ignorance or hatred can deny that the German people engaged in this war, have presented a spectacle of consummate devotion and self-surrender in waging it. With its very outbreak, all petty class prejudices, all sectional jealousies, all sectarian rivalry, and all industrial antagonisms seem to have been swept away. In a supreme moment, the whole nation actually felt...
...Promotion of Theological Education in Harvard University," the first class graduated from the school in December, 1817; nine years later the money had been secured for the building of Divinity Hall. For a full century the school has maintained its high ideals of scholarship and its non-sectarian spirit, the latter enjoined by the constitution, which provides that "every encouragement be given to the serious, impartial and unbiased investigation of Christian truth, and that no assent to the peculiarities of any denominations of Christians shall be required of either instructor or students...