Show COLLEGE MEN OF A CENTURY AGO SHORT ON PIETY the students at columbian col lege in the district of columbia now george washington university must have been a bad lot years ago there were 02 of them and only 18 of the lot were listed by the american education society in its 1824 report as pious the rest presumably could lay no claim to piety but even at that the little college makes an exemplary showing corn com pared with harvard then the big gest college in north america which had only nine pious students out of a total of and had not had a religious revival since 1740 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 it R swanton smithsonian Smiths onlan institution ethnologist came across the old report on the status of amer lean ican colleges while examining files of the official journal of the ameri amerl can missionary society for reports of missionaries on indian tribes the term pious Is not defined denned in the report and presumably the im pious students according to the well understood terminology of the day v were ere those who were not 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 students were pious and the institution sponsored revivals every year to keep them so |