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cerning registration blanks in which membership in orthodox churches 

 kad not been indicated. The first extract is as follows : 



It will not help you . . . that you are a member of the Universalist church. 

 . . . Sometimes employers will go so far as to state that they want a member 

 of the Methodist, Congregationalist, Presbyterian, or Baptist church, these four 

 being the most common of the so-called orthodox churches. 



It is of interest to note in passing that this agency discovered by 

 business experience what we have above shown by statistics, as to what 

 denominations control most of the colleges. In our statistics, Metho- 

 dists, Presbyterians and Baptists lead, Eoman Catholic, which evidently 

 does not employ the aid of agencies, or of this particular agency, to any 

 noticeable degree, being fourth. In our statistics Lutheran and Chris- 

 tian come next, followed by Congregational. The reason that Congre- 

 gational seems to this agency to rank with the three first quoted will 

 doubtless appear from the latter part of this article. Another extract 

 from a similar letter is as follows : 



It is likely, however, that you will be handicapped there, as you will be 

 handicapped in most colleges, by your lack of church membership. Have you 

 never been a member of a church? You understand that most colleges are 

 directly or indirectly connected with some church, and as a general rule the 

 president insists upon membership in some church. 



An extract from a third letter reads as follows : 



You are handicapped for the majority of positions for which you would 

 otherwise be eligible because you are not a member of a church. We had a 

 letter to-day from . . . that is in no way sectarian and yet they absolutely 

 demand in the teacher they desire a member of some protestant church. Fre- 

 quently the denominational schools make no requirement as to a particular 

 church but do demand membership in some church. 



Let us now return to a statistical consideration of the private edu- 

 cational institutions. We have noted that of the 620 such colleges, 

 listed in the U. S. Commissioner's Eeport, tables 29, 32 and 34, 417 

 are avowedly denominational. Of the remaining 203, 99 are quoted 

 as non-sectarian, while four are not specified. In the catalogues of three 

 of these four, the claim is made that they are non-sectarian, thus bring- 

 ing the number of such colleges up to 102. From the definition of 

 denominational or non-sectarian college which we have accepted, it fol- 

 lows that any college which conforms to all or even half of the four 

 clauses of this definition may not be called non-sectarian. Stating this 

 affirmatively, we find that: Any college which (1) was founded by a 

 private citizen or organization of citizens, and which (2) conducts de- 

 votional exercises at least five days in the week at which student at- 

 tendance is " required," or " expected " or " urged " or not distinctly 

 stated as " voluntary " in its catalogue, may not rank as non-sectarian, in 

 spite of any claims it may make to that effect, but must rank as a de- 

 nominational college. In case a college was privately founded, but 



