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Show imZHSSZZZSZmZZZZSZm It was not so very many( years ago ' , that the majority of .students in higher y ' RolifjiriTI studies were enrolled in church controlled K schools. A score of years has sufficed to SH(1 murk nc change. The new factors have rjj entered into the situation and bid fair to JlOt preempt tho field, that is, the state univcr- (olldicS S'' nD( nondcnommat'onnl college. During tho eighties, the number of college , " students began suddenly to rise toward W- r Bjr JOSEPH W. COCHRAN, D. D., seven per thousand of the population, until tnH lai, rnM tuti t (kxim. tlic present time, the proportion standing tFfj IT- I to-day, 1G per thousand. The rapid dc- velopment of state universities Jias been k-Mt I ' j . the marvel of the educational world, enrolling between 50,000 and 60,000 e ml j' . of students annually, their incomes aggregating over $12,000,000 a year, rB : their increase, in attendance during tho past decade amounting to 112 few pf-r cent. PjBp! The fact thafnioro students belonging to any ono religious denomi- F Vif ,' nation aro found in attendance upon state universities than in the schools belonging to that denomination has proved to be not only a startling but ) ' an unwelcomo fact to the churches, but the period of irritation and an- ill' tngoniflm is now closing. ill" i The religious demonimations aro moro active every yoar in supplying 11; ; the religious needs of Btate university students through student pastors, iVj, local churches, Biblo classes and eveu denominational homes and guild " If halls. All the great denominations including tho Roman Catholics are I II- at work at many of the larger university centers. The question of finan-cial finan-cial support has not been wrought out and tho movement is now in the P B experimental stage. $ ml But tho door of opportunity is swinging wide open. Heartiest co- ) Mt operation is promised from state university authorities, not ono president i standing apart fronv the movement. It is looked upon by the state uni- ! Bf versify as a long neglected method of co-operation in the task of training k ' tho youth of tho land to assume not only tho political and economic but ! bIbo tho moral and spiritual leadership of tho coming years. |