1912–13 Volume 37 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL 197with each other and affiliation with McGill University, in order to prevent unnecessaryduplication of lectures. It is proposed to erect a neutral buildingnear the university to accommodate the courses given in common and a wellequipped library. The first calendar just issued lists a combined faculty of sixteengiving thirty-six courses, besides the secular subjects taught in the university.The individual colleges will teach denominational history and polity intheir own way, and prescribe such requirements as they please for their degrees.This action is significant of a very general and important change in educationalmethods, the tendency of divinity schools to draw nearer together andnearer to the great universities. Formerly the medical and law schools weremostly separate and proprietary; now they are finding it desirable to affiliatewith universities in order to maintain their standards and increase their efficiency.The theological schools, however, have held aloof from the merger movement,and in the United States most of them are still unconnected with otherinstitutions and are often isolated by location. But recently it has becomerecognized that this must be changed if the candidates for the ministry are tohave the advantage of the best educational opportunities of our time, and inmany ways steps are being taken to overcome the disabilities of division.In California, a group of theological schools have gathered about the StateUniversity in Berkeley, as they are gathering about McGill in Montreal. InMichigan the student pastors, Y. M. C. A. secretaries, and professors in theState University join together to provide the "Ann Arbor School of Religion",with an excellent curriculum. Andover Theologfical Seminary has moved toHarvard; Union Theological Seminary has put up a magnificent building justacross Broadway from Columbia University, and the students of both institutionshave the advantages of the libraries and lectures of both.—The Independent.OLYMPIC GAMES AND COLLEGE ATHLETICSAn analysis of the points earned by the American contestants at the OlympicGames shows that the major honors were won by athletes from the smallercolleges and from city athletic clubs and organizations. Harvard and Princetonare not represented in the victories, while Yale is credited with only a pointand a half, Cornell with three-quarters of a point and the University of Pennsylvaniawith three points, less than the number won for Mercersburg Academyby Meredith.As against this inconsiderable showing of the college athletic aristocracy, theUniversity of Vermont has three points to its credit, Syracuse University threeand three-quarters, Wesleyan two and Carlisle Indian School eight. Of theathletic organizations, the New York Athletic Club won seventeen and threequarterpoints, the Irish-American Athletic Club sixteen and one quarter andthe Detroit Y. M. C. A. six.The democracy of sport is illustrated by the almost equal division of Olympichonors between student and non-student contestants. But the fact forsnecial comment is the large part taken by representatives of the "small college,"dear to Daniel Webster's heart.There is no occasion to fear corrupting influences in American sport whena Y. M. C. A. youth and a boy from a country academy can win athletic honorsin a world competition.—New York World.THE GROWTH OF STATE UNIVERSITIES.The growth of the state universities is among the marvels of our age. Inthe year ended June 30, igio. Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton registered12,240 students exclusive of the summer session; in the same period four stateuniversities of the middle west—Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois—had a total attendance of 16,476. This enrollment in the state institutions was