Show COLLEGE MEN OP OF A CENTURY AGO SHORT ON PIETY the students nt at columbian col leg ace mein in tho the district of Co columbia lumble now george INI washington ashington university must have been a bad lot years A ago go there were ca of them and only IS 18 of 0 the lot were listed by the american education society in its 1824 report as pious the rest pre sli mably could lay no claim to piety ant even at hint the little college makes an exemplary showing compared with it b if harvard arvard then the big rest college e in north america which had only nine pious stuff students e ants out of a total of and had not had bait a religious revival since 1710 1740 tile the of columbian college hardly could be att attributed r lt ut e d to su such c 4 har neglect I 1 lely ct cibul for rd t there cre h had a I 1 h been e en tl a b big 1 revival there only a year before dr john R swanton smithsonian Smithson lao institution ethnologist came across the old report on the status of american colleges while examining files of the off official iclal journal of the american missionary society for reports of missionaries on idian tribes the term pious 7 la Is not defined in the re report port and presumably the impious students according to lo the he well und understood erswood terminology of the lay day were those who were not study in ing for the evangelical ministry harvard even then was impregnated Impregnate di with unitarianism and wils was frow frowned neI upon by the older churches yale had bad a much better record or of its WO students were pious and the institution apons sponsored ored revivals every year to keep them so |