L'Agenda 1901 . ss THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE College Y. M. C. A. « « IN 1858 the Vounr; Mens Christian Association began its work amongstudents. The first college associations were organized in that year at the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan Previousto this, Christian work in College was largely individual and is true there had been local movements prior to this time, but they wereisolated from each other. Intercollegiate co-operation was practicallyunknown. The most noted among the forerunners of the association movementwere the Holy Club of Oxfor
L'Agenda 1901 . ss THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE College Y. M. C. A. « « IN 1858 the Vounr; Mens Christian Association began its work amongstudents. The first college associations were organized in that year at the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan Previousto this, Christian work in College was largely individual and is true there had been local movements prior to this time, but they wereisolated from each other. Intercollegiate co-operation was practicallyunknown. The most noted among the forerunners of the association movementwere the Holy Club of Oxford, composed of the Wesleys, Whitfield andtheir associates, the now famous Society of Brethren at Williams College,the Philadelphia Society of Princeton and the Societies for ReligiousInquiry, the last of these being the immediate predecessor of the associationat Bucknell. The earl v work of the college associations maintained this same isolationand consequently narrow and widel} divergent purposes and methods
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