Word: sectarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight destroyed Old Oglethorpe 73 years ago. Founded by Presbyterians at Milledgeville, Ga. in 1835, it was the first sectarian college south of Virginia. In 1861 Poet Sidney Lanier and all its other 100-odd students marched off to war. Its endowment vanished in Confederate bonds, its buildings were burned in Sherman's March to the Sea. Friends tried in vain to revive it when peace came...
...cookies. Zion lace, Zion books and Zion cement it could smile as it would at Wilbur Glenn Voliva's dire prophecies and belief that the earth is soup-plate shaped. But it could not dispute the grim, lap-jowled prophet's absolute mastery of his own tight sectarian world of Zion City, Ill., on the lake shore 40 mi. north of Chicago. Owner of its communal industries and General Overseer of its Christian Catholic Church, Prophet Voliva banned tobacco, liquor, cinemas, profanity, immodest dress and chewing gum from his realm and ruled its 6,000 inhabitants body & soul...
...Hill was called to the Presidency of Antioch College of Yellow Springs, Ohio, to continue the great work of Horace Mann. This period of only two years is portrayed in the biography by many personal letters from and to the President. His troubles with the financial and sectarian situation, eventually leading to his decision to resign, are told in a manner which brings out his great ability and the exceedingly trying conditions under which he had to work. The letters from Hill gave in a way which no amount of second-hand writing can, the true character and nature...
...chairman. Then the Board announced that Dr. Dixon Ryan Fox, 46, Columbia University history professor (Decline of Aristocracy in the Politics of New York; An Outline of Early American History) would be inaugurated in June as Union's 12th president. Union, founded in 1795 as the first non- sectarian college in the U. S., is currently excited about its new Plan of Education, which split its 18 departments into four autonomous divisions: languages & litera ture, social studies, mathematics & science engineering...
...almost from the first. Moscow wins the debate, the Social Democrats lived up to their reputations, made the customary strategical mistakes; but--was the debate worth winning? The Kremlin has scored its point, but it has lost Vienna. Surely it would have been more worthwhile to discard this prim sectarian attitude and to have played ball with the Socialists, more worthwhile to cooperate, underground if necessary, with the Austrian government and to bring all possible pressure for direct, speedy action to bear upon the Central Committee, rather than smugly to tell the defeated Viennese, "We told...