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new school
a. An advanced or liberal faction of a party or organization, spec. applied to the section of the Presbyterian Church of the United States which was separated from the rest of that Church between 1838 and 1869. Chiefly attrib.
1806T. G. Fessenden Democracy Unveiled i. 113 That were not justice in arrears, These New School folks would lack their ears. 1816Emigrant's Guide 17 Local politicians assume various appellations, such as New School and Old School Democrats, Snyderites, Clintonians, and many others, mostly derived from the name or principles of some popular demagogue. 1837W. Jenkins Ohio Gaz. 317 The public buildings consist of..two presbyterian churches, one of the old, and one of the new school. 1837J. M. Peck Gaz. Illinois (ed. 2) i. 72 McDonough College..is identified with the interests of the ‘old school’ Presbyterians, as the Illinois College at Jacksonville is with the ‘New School’ Presbyterians. 1872R. G. McClellan Golden State 406 The Old and New School Presbyterians have..2,600 members and 3,500 Sunday-scholars. 1884P. Schaff Relig. Encycl. III. 2306/1 The ‘New-Haven Theology’..was one of the most influential of the types of so-called ‘New School Divinity’. 1959Chambers's Encycl. XI. 184/1 The controversies of the old country were reflected in the colony, for instance, in the divisions of the Philadelphian presbyterians into the Old and New sides or schools. 1961K. S. Latourette Christianity in Revolutionary Age III. 87 The congregations which had sprung up from the Plan of Union, the ‘New School’ Presbyterians, were made up mainly of New Englanders and their descendants. 1967D. T. Kauffman Dict. Relig. Terms 329/2 New School, term for that part of American Presbyterianism in mid-nineteenth century which favored liberal positions in theology, church government, and social issues such as slavery.
b. transf.
1837Southern Lit. Messenger III. 107 As I once read medicine..under a disciple of the ‘new school’ (vulgarly called steam doctors). 1838J. F. Cooper Eve Effingham II. iii. 84 But they evidently inclined to the opinion that the new school of pews was far better than the old. 1974Times 18 Apr. 19/6 We conclude that the New School are mistaken in relying on some ‘black box’ stability in the relationships between the various sectoral balances. |