World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget .. . anics should bemade dynamic. Into institutions which are un-fruitful or decadent should, if possible, bebreathed the breath of life. 2. Economy of educational administration andsupervision may require specializations offunctions and combination of efforts. Unionuniversities thrive on the foreign field. Whynot at home? 3. Radical changes in the policy of some in-stitutions, or even abandonment of efforts un-wisely begun, may prove desirable in the inter-ests of the kingdom program. Th
World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget .. . anics should bemade dynamic. Into institutions which are un-fruitful or decadent should, if possible, bebreathed the breath of life. 2. Economy of educational administration andsupervision may require specializations offunctions and combination of efforts. Unionuniversities thrive on the foreign field. Whynot at home? 3. Radical changes in the policy of some in-stitutions, or even abandonment of efforts un-wisely begun, may prove desirable in the inter-ests of the kingdom program. There are all toorare instances in which denominations havevoluntarily retired from certain fields andhanded over to sister denominations theirabandoned phases of work. Cooperation, not competition, is our educa-tional watchword. 4. It is desirable both to avoid unnecessaryduplications and denominational rivalries; andto guarantee that within reasonable distance olevery considerable community there be an WHERE COLLEGES GET THEIRSTUDENTS THE COLLEGE SERVES THE COMMUNITY THE COMMUNITY SHOULD ASSIST THE COLLEGE. DOTS SHOW HOW MANY STUDENTS OUT OF EACH ONE HUNDRED COME FROM THE AREAS INDICATED educational institution permeated with theChristian spirit and equipped for training theyouth of a gieat Christian democracy. TWO IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES FIRST: what the churches undertake to dothey should do in the best possible way. Second: American education should be per-meated with the spirit of democracy, which isthe spirit of Christ. Christianity is the greatest civilizing, mould-ing, uplifting power on this globe, and it is asad defect in any institution of high t does not bring those under its care intothe closest possible relation to it.—MarkHopkins, after fifty years at Williams College. AMERICAN EDUCATION: Denominational Institutions 157 DENOMINATIONAL AND INDE-PENDENT COLLEGES i IN THE educational program the college is central in its relationships and pre-eminent in imp
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