The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-03-02
COLLEGE MEN
The Part They Take In
Religious Work.
90 MUCH IN SUNDAY SCHOOLS
AND ELSEWHERE IN
The CITIES.

THE CITIES.
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The escapades and wrongdoings of
college students are so quickly given
prominence and so widely advertised
that we are likely to get the impress
sicn that a college is wholly made up
of the criminaly-mlnded and reck.
less. That this is not so is shown
by little study of the report of the
religious organizations at work i'm the
colleges and universities of the coun
try.
The Y. M. c. A.
The organization most generally
known and which is at work in over
700 institutions of learning in North
America is the Young Mems Chris
tian Association. over $4,000 college
men we're in Bible classes last year
conducted under the auspices of this
association. This does not include
the thousands of other men who
were in church Sunday school
classes. Ten thousand men were in
mission study classes. The college
men gre developing their characters
not only by these studies, but by the
practical work they are doing for
others.
Most associations located in cities
with a large foreign population are
conducting educational classes for
the foreign men. In many cities now
We find college men giving an even.
ing or two a week. without pay, to
the teaching of Italians, Bulgarians,
Hung1rians, Armenans and men OF
other nationaities, to, speak. read and
write the language OF their adopted
country. When these men come to
understand English. they are given
talks on Good. Citizenship" First
Aid to the Injured" "How to Make
Ga dels" and other very practical
subjects.
Boy Club Work.
Another kind of work carried on
by many associations is the boy club
work. where each clique or gang in
a community is furnished with a col.
lege student as leader. The leader
coaches the boys in athletics. teach
ing them how to keep their bodies
well and strong and how to play fair
and clean. lie advises them i'm their
club meetings. in organization and
in parliamentary rules. and tries to
instill in them the highest ideals of
honor and morality.
Some associations organize and
conduct Sunday schools and preach
ing services in the poorer parts OF
cities and in country districts not
supplied with other religious SER
vices. In the cities large number
of students are to be found helping
in social settlement and mission
houses. Thirty.fve hundred men
were engaged in some form of social
service last year.
The State University.
A typical college association is the
one at the Ohio State University at
Columbus. Here over 200 men are
in Bible classes conducted by the
association. and an average of 800
in Sunday school. An equal number
of students. most OF them the ones
that go to Sunday school, attend
church service. About l25 are regu-
larly present at the weekly meetings
of the association and other lines OF
religious activity are pursued with
marked enthusiasm. However, as
there are $500 students in the uni
yersity, It means that half of them
are not regularly attending any re-
ligious services. A large number OF
these are students who at home al
ways attended one or more services,
but here become careless and indif.
ferent. 1t is this class of students
who, gradually drifting away from
their religious moorings, are soon
shipwrecked on the rocks of immor-
ality. Some are only Indifferent to
the good some have become very
bad 1t is particularly for this class
of students that the association and