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Show COLLEGES LACK RELIGIOUS IDEA AN nUsNCISCO, July A The United Btataa la tha only grant Ration, af tha world which has never had tha ; official sanation of religion. Dr. Tuily C. Knolee, prealdent of the Collage af I tha Pad fie. Ban Jose, Cal.. told tha ! department of higher education at tha I annual convention of tha N'aiUnal Kd-; Kd-; uontioc aaeoclatlon here. "Tha founder of the American government, gov-ernment, under tha Influence af Freach prerevolut ternary doctrine, ao j thoroughly believe In toleration that 1 they aotnpleteiy aa para ted church and state, neither noogntalng tha ahurak I aor proscribing It." Dr. Knolea aald. All aecondnry and nearly all cUlee7l-' cUlee7l-' ata training waa furnished by tha vnrt-i vnrt-i oua church for a generation after tha founding of (he republio. Dr. know lea i aaawted. During tha nineteenth ami i twentieth earttuHea, he aald, secondary secon-dary education haa become almost wholly aeculaiiaad. Such training. Dr. Knolea aald. can never be religious and there ara grav doubts aa 10 lis remaining spiritual. Ha aald: "fcrduoators of every typo and boal aeaa men blame education for tha materia, ma-teria, ism of modern Ufa. All agrea that our coUegea at weaent. because of over crow ding and because of limited limit-ed physical equipment, are not able to stress cultural and phyeloal vattiea. |