Word: sectarianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book like this has been long overdue. Needless to say, it is timely, for the Latin School celebrated its tercentenary last April, and a school which has 'the distinction and fame of being the oldest "free", public, non-endowed, non-sectarian secondary school with continuous existence in the United States is certainly worthy of attention as the ancestor in some degree of relationship of Groton as well as of the High School at Sauk Center, Minnesota. The qualifications which Miss Holmes makes are necessary because there are several claimants for the honor of being our oldest secondary school. She disposes...
Guided in general by sectarian and sectional feeling, the commission put in the favorite hymn of the Methodist Protestants : Take time to be holy, speak oft with thy Lord: Abide in him always, and feed on His Word; Make friends of God's children, help those that arc weak, Forgetting in nothing his blessing to seek...
About one-third of Robert's 54 faculty members are U. S. citizens. Officially they lead a drab, secluded life. Penalty for drinking is instant dismissal. Though Robert is non-sectarian and officially nonproselytizing, the ruling element in the faculty is composed of oldsters rooted in the missionary tradition. But younger facultymen, adventurous college graduates, mostly from the West and Midwest, go out on three-year contracts to see Life. Istanbul has a gay foreign colony and night life...
There are 200,000 Protestant congregations in the United States and Canada, served by about 150,000 ministers. There are 200 institutions engaged in the training of ministers. There are four or five Divinity Schools in the United States, non-sectarian in character, which are, as Harvard Divinity School is, integral parts of large universities. There are perhaps twenty or twenty-five more theological schools on independent foundations which profess to maintain academic standards of university level. Below these is a successions of seminaries of lower standards which resolve themselves. Finally into little more than schools of vocational guidance...
...While he traveled his territory (he was a salesman of educational textbooks) he kept his hand in by writing religious mottoes on handy hotel blotters, rebuking girls who smoked, attempting to convert hard-boiled chance acquaintances. He was the strongest man who had ever been to his little sectarian college, and he had an excellent tenor voice, but somehow people did not like George Brush. Although he practically never did a wrong thing he was always getting into trouble, including jail. But his high-principled sincerity usually convinced his detractors that he was crazy and comparatively harmless. George Brush flinched...