Word: sectarianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reverend C. Lesile Glenn conducted the first of a non-sectarian services of House "Forums on Religion" in the Leverett House Common Room last night. The talks are designed to take the place of lectures given last year on "The Outline of Christianity...
...Baptists would be the largest Protestant denomination in the land (10,000,000 members) if their five bodies could only get together.* As it is, they are the most sectarian of sects. Their local congregations distrust creeds, abhor ecclesiastics, are not bound by anything the Conventions say or do. Last week the Southern Baptist Convention, concluding its meeting in Oklahoma City, remained equally independent toward interchurch unity. Baptist John Benjamin Lawrence spoke for his brethren when he deplored the "vast enveloping movement which aims to tie Baptists up in a bundle with other bodies with which they have no ecclesiastical...
...Vermont poor boy, Thad Stevens was admitted to the bar in John Wilkes Booth's birthplace, Bel Air, Md., practiced law in York, Pa. He had the tough, narrow tenacity and discernment of the perfect sectional and sectarian infighter. As far as he saw, he saw clearly; as far as he thought, he thought honestly and without sentiment. His passionate sympathy for the Negro found fearless expression in his years of intimacy with his mulatto housekeeper, Lydia Smith, generally accepted as his common-law wife...
...future national administration to interfere with its highly prized academic independence. However, the validity of the argument crumbles when the facts of the case are examined. Ninety-eight per cent of all schools eligible for the grant have accepted it and this group contains-some three-hundred private non-sectarian colleges, including Yale, Columbia, and Radcliffe--none of whom have yet shown any grave sign of government corruption...
Master of ceremonies for the occas- ion will be John J. Mahoney '03, Director of Extension Courses, Member of the Faculty, and president of the organization which was incorporated June 6 as a "non-profit, non-partisan, non-sectarian institution devoted to educational work in the economic, political and social fields...