Word: sectarianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sectarian Bigotry...
...Perhaps most often in our own educational history it has been the attack of sectarian bigotry which our colleges have had to resist. Harvard history reveals not a few such episodes. But today the most menacing attack comes, as it has repeatedly in the past, from the political side. In one form it is precipitated by allegedly patriotic organizations committed to maintain in schools and colleges their own particular conceptions of loyalty. The motives of these misguided folk are, I doubt not, often excellent. But they have opened the cover of Pandora's Box and we may well be fearful...
...still typical of how a good-sized ministerial training school operates. The fact that Union matriculates Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, exposes them to the religious views of Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Disciples of Christ and then returns them to their original denominations makes little difference. Few young Protestants today are bothered by sectarian divisions. Those that are go elsewhere than Union-Presbyterian Fundamentalists to Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia, Anglo-Catholics to Nashotah House near Milwaukee, Lutherans to Concordia in St. Louis...
...down to talk about his new job. Acutely aware of itself as a burgeoning cultural centre, Kansas City chafed for 20 years at the fact that it was the biggest U. S. city without a university of its own. After a number of false starts, a non-municipal, non-sectarian university was chartered in 1928. Three years ago the University of Kansas City opened its doors. Not until next autumn, however, will it be officially equipped with a president...
...Many a clergyman, however, would be gratified at the intensely religious atmosphere that has grown up inside in spite of the free-thinking Founder's will. First book to be studied is the Bible. The orphans learn to say grace before meals, to file every morning for non-sectarian prayer into the $1,600,000 College chapel where the Scripture is intoned from a "reading desk...