The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-18
RfIIGiON ~ THE com EGES.


\ New Haven Answer to n College Contree
vrsy That Is Going On.
NEw illyEN. March l7.-President Eliot Of
Harvard University recently made a statement
t. tho eject that Henry Drummond once said
that Harvard was the most religious college In
the country. President Eliot's remarks were
prompted 10y the statement Of Mrs. Marion Ellis
Of Rockford. H.. who said at the recent meet.
ing Of IN" Nomon's Synoial Missionary Society
~ Milwaukee that Of all American colleges
Harvard gave the least attention to religious
work and that the University OF Chicago was
the most religious. This controversy calls at
trntion to a side OF undergraduate life with
which he public j. not familiar.
According to statistics furnished hy the Year
Book u the Young Mems Christian Association
of North America for 1880. Ya,e University has
the largest branch Of The Young Mem Christian
Association Of any American college. The
numbcrot member in the Harvard association
is 1888 # q 10 al Of 1901 students. ut the Uni
y,r-lty Of Chicago the number is - Of some
1000 students. Will, at Yale there are 500
members 90 low Ght Hail. the Yale T.. NJ. C. A..
o~fa'o'al ui2.jil students. II Is also interesting
to not that there are 1900 members of Evan.
/ gelrll thurchos 1T Harvard. while Yale with
a smaller undergraduate body has some 1874
{ uirnts who are church members.
The religious activity at Yale to day IL not
on.y the grrlt.S t amorg the American COZ
l-ge~. but has reached such a stage that II has
become unusual and "A most remarkable. The
students arr Interested and every branch OF
thu r"is Gus work is At it, zenith. This popu.
iari'y, II II may be Gale! that. OF religion at
va" to-day Is attributed to several agencies.
There is no question that the efficient
work II the men who have charge Of the Yais
in, y Mems Christian Association has been
the most important factor. The men who have
been the most prominent in religious work
during the past two years are Matthew Mills OF
Chicago. the President Of tn, Yale Young
Mem Christian Association. who is n member
oi the senior class. and tha Gralulte Secre.
'ary. Henry i. Wright. Yale. ~. tho son OF
Dean WRIGHT. n speaking Of the religious
WORK AZ Yale Mr. WriGh, -aid:
The i~u'IDase in the membership II the Yils
! VI & \ has teen far greater during the last
v'al than ever before. Last year wa had 500
members. AMI now thcr' are $50 Students who
are members Of Dwight Hail. | attribute the
gr.a; interest in ]rcligoIs work T. tho fact that
her" n laI" "" max" 20 distinction among
Denominations ca. Wp". Is ua~ri On the
FONTS o| it'h common t. Il evangelical be-
.I':s. bata"O her ban a many other insii-
'yi.pU, 10" .lru are dylIri in thea work on
t'.''uui 10, ia" rrcpSh t.,l % r"iglpus sect
l. Hy! u" r"m"Whr "' mat only lew years
-,... NJ lut'ai, the Wl'r Of a Sew Haven
.~,"lEy'uun, arose in urttn- an made tho
sooner -'ld her Spu 10 he'll tina To- Yalr.
WI th'r Mrs, Iptrdj- view Of Yale lle had
@ry.h"S M 80 WITH The religious revival at
Ar,'hrr a'o which has hclpci to orins
n'""u Nee nt'''u' rpl .tlpn /, that the most
rr'u,r.a' "rn .n tine g'l~S"s tnE' part u ra-
pou- NNr. uui su"u effort = rucuurlgpl hy