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Methodist college, and also sanctioned by the regents of the state university, and is now in process of being carried out. The building of the "Red River Valley University" was sold to the state for a school of science. This movement toward educational unity is the Toronto plan modified to fit American conditions. So far as the United States is concerned, it is a great innovation. It is confidently believed that the Baptists and the Presbyterians of North Dakota will soon follow the step taken by the Method- ists, and that the movement will spread to other states. There is much evidence to confirm this belief.

VI. PROPOSED MOVEMENT IN OTHER STATES

For years this movement has been in the air. It is just now taking tangible form, as expressions on every side show.

An official committee of Baptists in the state of Washington makes this report:

It is proposed to establish by the side of the state university a Christian institution, federated with it, and under the auspices of the Baptist denomina- tion The scope to be .... to provide lecture courses to be filled by the

most eminent talent available. The president, with other instructors as the situation may require, to teach those branches of learning essential to a finish- ed education upon which the state does not enter, or enters in an incomplete way. To enlarge the curriculum until every gap in full university work occasioned by the nature of the state university is filled. To found scholar- ships.

This is the way the Congregational church as a whole sees the opportunity. At the triennial council of this church, held at Portland, Maine, in 1901, the following resolution was adopted:

Resolved, That this council regards with favor the project of establishing foundations of a religious character in connection with our great state universities, whose purpose shall be to provide pastoral care, religious in- struction, and helpful Christian influence to the students there assembled, and we heartily commend this enterprise to those of generous spirit as in the highest degree worthy of their sympathy and their gifts.

In Missouri the Northern and Southern Presbyterians and the Episcopalians have the matter under advisement. In Ne- braska the Episcopalians have land for a building, and the Lu- therans and the Presbyterians are working to the same end. In Illinois the Presbyterians, through their synod, are perfecting a