Word: unsectarian
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Harvard Divinity School has again become the theme of discussion, owing to some statements about it in President Eliot's Report. The facts of the case are these, - to put them briefly, - the School aims to be unsectarian, and is not. A writer in the Nation for Feb. 12 points out some of the causes for this discrepancy between the profession and practice there. The course of instruction, while it assumes to give a "free inquiry into theology," in reality obliges every student to follow out prescribed studies, and offers no electives. Owing to this, many members of the School...