Word: secularism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only have some of the students of Divinity answered the charges brought against them as students ; but the religious and secular press have entered the lists in Harvard's behalf. A writer in the Christian Union says...
...been devoted to our studies. The new year brings little gladness to the students' hearts, except by anticipation. This is for us the busiest time of the year. Returning from a pleasant vacation, we are plunged at once into the trials and tribulations of an examination period. The secular and college New Year's Days do not correspond. The one begins on the first of January; the other on the ninth of February, when, we are informed by the catalogue, the "Second Half-Year begins." Yet still in spite of this discrepancy we willingly yield to custom and wish...
Other noticeable subjects are the following: Is a monarchical government the best? Aff. 1698. Is agriculture the most honorable of all secular employments? Aff. 1725, 1755. Is the diffusion of knowledge among all the citizens necessary to the existence of the republic ? Aff. 1781. Is the starry heaven made of fire ? Aff. 1674. Is there a stone that makes gold? Aff. 1687. Can mortals be changed into one another alternately? Aff. 1703. Is the earth the centre of the universe? Neg. 1717. Is a comet, which only appears after many years, more a foreboding of divine wrath than a planet...
...alienating our youth from Catholicism" is not very great as the result of a Harvard or Yale course. But this I will say, that in my time I have met many Harvard men and found but one a sincere Christian. With the rest of them the pursuit of a secular knowledge seemed to have led to skepticism and a thinly disguised contempt for all things sacred. [T. B. Connery, N. Y. Times...
...intended to allow an opportunity of gaining the best scientific training, so that the Catholic youth shall be able to meet the great questions of the day, more especially in purely secular departments. The best professors are to be chosen in philosophy, theology, the physical sciences, history - in a word, in all the subjects treated at a liberal university. If such professors can not be found or can not be spared in this country, they will be called from Europe - Louvain, Rome or Paris. Under such masters it is hoped students will be impelled to a love of the deeper...