Word: sectarian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this so-called nobility, who have learned absolutely nothing from the great revolution and from modern social evolution. Second, that the education to be obtained in the schools, lycees and universities of the French Republic, is infinitely more thorough, broader, more liberal, more moral than the narrow, loose and sectarian education of the religious orders and especially of Jesuits, who have been so vigorously and justly denounced by philosophers and statesmen from Pascal to Gambetta and Jules Ferry and including Montesquieu, Voltaire and de Choiseul...
...with the Seminary at Andover. It was never intended, however, that the House should have any official connection with the Seminary. From the first, special efforts have been made to secure the interest and cooperation of all who believe in settlement work. In all the work of the House, sectarian distinctions have been simply ignored...
...university life. In the first place the committee was formed by a conference of all the religious societies here, both Catholic and Protestant,- an unparalleled event, as President Eliot remarked in his speech at the time. But the committee stands for something more than a merging of sectarian interests in a common desire for usefulness. It marks more plainly than ever the fact that selfisness as the characteristic sin of the scholar is a thing of the past. The idea of a university as a place where a man could fill himself with learning to his own delectation and whence...
...proposes reforms which are for the best interests of American institutions.- (a) They defend our free non-sectarian public schools: McGlynn in Forum, XVI, 13; E. D. Mead, The Roman Catholic Church and the Public Schools, 85-103.- (1) They oppose the employment of the subjects of any foreign ecclesiastical power, as teachers or officers in said schools: Harpers Weekly, Oct. 27, 1894; American Citizen, Nov. 17, 1894; (2) They condemn the support out of the public treasury of any sectarian school or institution not owned or controlled by public authority: Harper's Weekly, Oct. 27, 1894; American Citizen...
...Even if he did not feel any benefit from the service himself he was aiding others who needed the services by his presence, for it is a trait of human nature that a crowd always draws more to itself. He said the services should not be viewed with any sectarian idea. They were the family prayers of the college and sectarianism had not yet made its way into them...