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Remarkable in their day, the ideals of the founders, Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, constituted a truly radical educational experiment for the 1860s. From its founding, Cornell University was explicitly non-sectarian and committed to equal educational opportunities for all “persons,” men and women.
Jan 28, 2010 · Yet at times during the university's early years, blacks and Jews who enrolled at Cornell often found closed doors at fraternities and sororities, added Carol Kammen, Tompkins County historian. Engst and Kammen were featured speakers at "Part and Apart: Black and Jewish Students at Cornell, 1869-1969," a Jan. 26 lecture at the UJA Federation in ...
Cornell was founded as a non-sectarian school, but had to compete with church-sponsored institutions for gaining New York's land-grant status. A.D. White noted in his inaugural address, "We will labor to make this a Christian institution, a sectarian institution may it never be."
Nov 6, 1991 · No. 90-1014. Argued November 6, 1991 — Decided June 24, 1992. Principals of public middle and high schools in Providence, Rhode Island, are permitted to invite members of the clergy to give invocations and benedictions at their schools' graduation ceremonies. Petitioner Lee, a middle school principal, invited a rabbi to offer such prayers at ...
A pioneer in progressive education since 1972, The Philadelphia School (TPS) is a non-sectarian school located in Center City Philadelphia for students in preschool through 8th grade. Renowned for its child-centered, inquiry-based curriculum, students learn on the school’s expansive urban campus as well as in nature one full day per week.
Syllabus. Following this Court's invalidation in Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602, 91 S.Ct. 2105, 29 L.Ed.2d 745 (Lemon I) of Pennsylvania's statutory program to reimburse nonpublic sectarian schools (hereafter schools) for secular educational services, the District Court on remand enjoined any payments under the program for services rendered after Lemon I, but permitted Pennsylvania to ...
Kent County Free School (absorbed by Washington College when the latter was founded) Province of Maryland: 1723 1782 Non-sectarian Bethlehem Female Seminary (Moravian University) Province of Pennsylvania: 1742 1863 Moravian Church: Newark Academy (University of Delaware) Delaware Colony: 1743 1833 Presbyterian, but officially non-sectarian ...
