Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...original purpose of American colleges was mainly to train men for the ministry, but so it is no longer. Harvard, founded chiefly to educate clergymen, now gives to this profession barely two per cent. of her graduates; Yale, begun under similar impulses, now contributes a meagre three per cent. This and other interesting changes in the professions favored by college graduates are described in a bulletin by Bailey B. Burritt on "Professional Distribution of University and College Graduates," just issued by the United States Bureau of Education...
...Teachers in colleges, 40 28 normal schools, 5 8 high schools, 96 87 endowed schools, 47 37 grade schools, etc, 113 102 Superintendents, 5 8 Principals and supervisors, 49 47 -- -- Total teachers, 355 317 Harvard students, 87 98 Students of other colleges, 49 55 Social workers, 5 9 Clergymen, 5 9 Lawyers, 0 10 Physicians, 2 4 Librarians, 2 3 Secretaries, 3 5 Artists, 2 2 Journalists, 3 2 No occupation given, 68 76 -- -- Total, 581 590 Students in the Engineering Camp and students in Physical Culture courses, 202 222 -- -- 783 812 Deduct for names counted twice...
...come to preach in Appleton are worth knowing, however slightly. These are representative of the highest type of clergymen. From conversations with these men will spring thoughts and ideals seldom attained by undergraduates without the aid of some such stimulus. The CRIMSON would feel it had accomplished something well worth while if it could persuade its readers to call on the University preachers...
...institutions show the courses about evenly divided so far as numbers are concerned between the co-operating Faculties. Andover, in addition to Harvard's divinity courses, also lists a number of subjects in several departments of Harvard College, which might be of some interest to future clergymen. These are generally on early history, philosophy, ethics, economics and sociology. The seminary offers instruction in the Old and New Testaments, their languages and philosophy, church history, theology, practical theology-which includes such topics as the technique of the preacher-the history of religions and ethics