Word: sectarianism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present chapel in 1858. 1886 marked the end of the regular College church, which was supplanted by the present system of a Board of Preachers. Required attendance was abolished; and likewise the former communion services, which have not, we understand, been held since. At first, this new non-sectarian arrangement was maintained with difficulty. Gradually, however, it has become firmly established, and more and more the religious life is centering around the Chapel. Meanwhile the religious spirit has broadened and deepened. Attendance at Chapel has increased until at least a fifteenth of those who might justly be expected to support...
...common consent Easter, primarily a church festival, has marked the opening of a period of social activity. Most of the schools and colleges of the country, whether sectarian or not, have acknowledged this fact and ordained their holidays accordingly. Harvard is one of the notable exceptions. Harvard students who go to homes outside Massachusetts for the week of April nineteenth find that their Yale and Princeton friends and those who are at other institutions have had their good times and are now back at work. The festivities of Easter week have passed, while Harvard with supreme indifference kept them...
...Fitch, D.D. '00, President of the Seminary, accepted the building for the Faculty, and then delivered the address of the afternoon, his subject being "The Seminary and the University." The Seminary during its hundred years residence in Andover had been identified with the sectarian interests of the Congregational church, but now effort must be made to identify it with the learning if Harvard University, the alliance to be academic and not ecclesiastical. He said that for this reason the Faculty should be composed of scholars and not sectarian ministers. He pointed out that the new idea of the teaching...
Doubtless the Boy scout Movement is familiar to many. It is a non-sectarian effort, now extending throughout this country and England, with the aim of utilizing the normal impulses of boys for lout-of-door life and for adventure, by organizing them into group under an older leader to aid in their development into alert, useful citizens. The movement is meant for all classes of boys and the groups are organized in sympathy with and not in opposition to existing organizations...