COLLEGE MEN OF A CENTURY AGO SHORT ON PIETY The students at "Columbian col-lege, col-lege, in the District of Columbia" now George Washington university must have been a bad lot 100 years ago. There were G2 of them and only 13 of the lot were listed by the American Education society in its IS24 report as "pious." The rest, presumably, pre-sumably, could lay no claim to piety. But even at that the little college makes an exemplary showing compared com-pared with Harvard, then the biggest big-gest college In North America, which had only nine "pious" students out of a total of 302, and had not had a religious revival since 1710. The impiety of Columbian college hardly could be attributed to such neglect, for there had been a big revival there only a year before. Dr. John R. Swanton, Smithsonian institution ethnologist, came across the old report on the status of American Amer-ican colleges while examining flics of the official journal of the American Ameri-can Missionary society for reports of missionaries on iimum nn.o. The term "pious" Is not defined In the report and presumably the impious im-pious students, according to the well understood terminology of the day, were those who were not studying study-ing for the evangelical ministry. Harvard, even then, was impregnated with Unitarianism and was frowned upon by the older churches. Yale had a much better record. Of its 300 students, 115 were "pious," and the institution sponsored revivals every year to keep them so.