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 DRIFT TOWARD EDUCATIONAL UNITY 833

whole United States. The University of Nebraska in 1900 had i, 800 students. Omitting the smaller denominations, these stu- dents represented church membership as follows:

155 Baptists 102 Protestant Episcopalians 60 Catholics 70 Lutherans

109 Christians 302 Presbyterians

220 Congregationalists 458 Methodists

The 458 Methodist students in attendance exceed in number the Methodist students of college grade in the Nebraska Wesleyan, the old well-established Methodist college of the state.

In the University of North Dakota a religious census was taken in 1905, showing the following church relationships:

78 Lutherans 20 Baptists

64 Methodists 7 Episcopalians

54 Presbyterians 3 Christian Scientists

42 no church 3 Spiritualists

37 Catholics i Unitarian

28 Congregationalists

That is, 87^/2 per cent, of the students were church members, and only i2 l / 2 per cent, belonged to no church. In Nebraska University in 1900, 53 per cent, of the men and 74 per cent, of the women were church members. Others reported themselves as church adherents (41 per cent, of the men; 24 per cent, of the women). According to Professor Kelsey's figures in 1897, representing sixteen important state universities, 57^ per cent, of the students were church members, and 31 per cent, church adherents. Only 12 per cent, had no definite church connections or preferences. This is higher than the percentage outside. In the half-century ending in 1894, according to Professor Kelsey, Michigan University had sent out 301 clergymen and mission- aries that is. an average of six for each graduating class. Many theological schools can scarcely equal this record.

Faculties, like student bodies, are as God-fearing and religious as individuals in other walks of life. In the University of North Dakota, for example, in 1905 the faculty had church relations as follows :