Word: sectarian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...appeal for subscriptions for the extension of the means of theological education in Cambridge. The letter states that the President of the University has officially declared that "neither the object nor the consequence, 'of enlarging the theological funds of the University, is to be the communication of a sectarian character to that institution, or to inculcate the peculiarities of any sect,' but that the beneficent and laudable design is 'to place students of divinity under the most favorable circumstances for inquiring for themselves into the doctrines of Revelation...
...Defensive," convincingly refutes recent and wearisome attackers of Harvard, showing with pleasantly satirical arguments that Harvard has the virtues and defects of our country and time--a condition she cannot escape, and be human. Mr. R. D. Skinner tries to answer the dicult question: "Can Harvard be Non-Sectarian"? and though he sucseeds in proving the expected answer, his statements are not always clear. It is a stimulating subject calling for broad treatment. The undergraduate as spoken of by Mr. Skinner is perhaps too sensitive and narrow-minded, and the sooner he can absorb all sorts of theories of life...
...Fortunately none of these institutions is under denominational control. This is not due to change but to the unusual good sense of the founders and their successors. Yet while free from sectarian control, these colleges have had close ties with the Congregationalists and Presbyterians especially, and have always maintained a healthy religious life among their students...
...number of catholic spirited World-educators--college professors and students, teachers and preachers, editors and authors, lecturers and reformers who are known to be cosmopolitan in thought and method. An essential condition of all benefactions to public libraries, etc., by Mr. Carnegie is the entire disuse of partisan or sectarian names and dogmas; and the Presentation Copies are proffered in the same cosmopolitan and genuinely catholic spirit. Those who are not and are determined not to become cosmopolitan and catholic spirited in this sense will find no interest in either of these volumes, whether accepted as Presentation Copies or purchased...
...educational and social club for men, managed by wage earners. Its object is to extend to working-men opportunities for elementary, technical, commercial, and higher education through evening classes and lectures, and to bring into mutually helpful contact working-men, students and teachers. It rests on a non-sectarian, non-partisan basis, being open to any man over seventeen years of age regardless of his nationality, creed, or station in life...