The problem of religious progress . nsti-tutions not fully known is given to the undenomi-national list. Of the 61 colleges classified in the following tableas undenominational, 23 are State institutions, someof them founded before the disruption of theunion between the Church and State ; 4, city insti-tutions; 3, military ; 2, agricultural; i, deaf mute;and the remainder are not clearly indicated as totheir character. Nearly half of the latter are underthe presidency of evangelical divines. Eight of theState and city institutions have clergymen for pres-idents, and many of the professors and
The problem of religious progress . nsti-tutions not fully known is given to the undenomi-national list. Of the 61 colleges classified in the following tableas undenominational, 23 are State institutions, someof them founded before the disruption of theunion between the Church and State ; 4, city insti-tutions; 3, military ; 2, agricultural; i, deaf mute;and the remainder are not clearly indicated as totheir character. Nearly half of the latter are underthe presidency of evangelical divines. Eight of theState and city institutions have clergymen for pres-idents, and many of the professors and studentsare active evangelical communicants. GeneralEatons report for 1883-84 gives 370 colleges anduniversities. In 1870 he gave a large number; buthe has probably since that time found that some ofthem should be classified in a different table. With the aid of the Year-Books of the denominations wehave carefully examined the list, and assigned to ID I ji^ 2vl Denominational AND Undenominational Studentsin course for Spiritual Vitality. 471 the Churches those marked unsectarian whichare properly denominational in their origin, affilia-tion, patronage, etc. We give the following care-fully classified table: Colleges and Universities in the United States—1884. Denominational Relations. Number ofColleges. Students inNumber of the CollegiateProfessors. Course Baptist (all kinds) Congregational Christian and Disciple* Episcopal Evangelical Association Friend Hebrew Lutheran Methodist (all kinds) Mormon Presbyterian (all kinds) Reformed (German and Dutch). Seventh-day Advent Swedenborgian United Brethren Unitarian Universalist Total non-Roman CatholicRoman Catholic Total denominational Undenominational Aggregate 4526 17II 2 5I 14 63 I 46 7II 7I 4 252 57 30961 332317140 9914 46 7102 534 397I 4395841 2,215 2,215 782 370 2,997 3,728 3,108 1,326 807 137 331 II 860 4,938 4,060449 13 238 1,040 260 21,3014,647 25,9486,819 t32,767 * The practice of the Disciples in
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