OCR Text |
Show COLLEGE MEN Op A CENTURY AGO SHORT ON PiETy The students at "Columbian lege, in tlie District of Columbi 1 ' now George Washington universi't " must have been a had lot 100 v ago. War5 There were 02 of them and 18 of the lot were listed by jj American Education society n , 1S24 report as "pious." The rest D sumably, could lay no claim to pi i But even at that the little coli' makes an exemplary showing JKfr pared . with Harvard, then the u' gest college In North America, whit had only nine "pious" students mi of a total of 302, and had not l Z a religious revival since 1740, The impiety of Columbian colle hardly could be attributed to sh neglect, for there had been a b! revival there only a year before. 8 Dr. John R. Swanton, Smithsonian, institution ethnologist, came am, the old report on the status of Amer! : lean colleges while examining j.' of the official journal of the Ameri can Missionary society for reports of ' missionaries on Indian tribes. 1 The term "pious" is not defined In the report and presumably the 0 ' pious students, according to the ' well understood terminology 0f 1 day, were those who were not study. ' ing for the evangelical ministry ' Harvard, even then, was impregnated 1 . with Unitarianism and was frowned ' upon by the older churches. Yale had a much better record. 0' ! 1 its 300 students, 115 were "piona ' and the institution sponsored revivals. ' every year to keep them so. |