The discussion on "Religion in Colleges" by Presidents McCosh and Eliot, is given in brief on another page. One part of this discussion seems to turn on the meaning of the word "religion." Harvard is non-religious only so far as she is strictly non-sectarian. Princeton is religious, but cannot be said to be non-sectarian. But really religion is, as President Eliot says, "wider, broader, deeper than sectarianism." We believe most strongly that of the three types of American colleges, the "uncompromising denominational," the "semi-denominational," and the non-sectarian, the last is the best, for it can most successfully accomplish the highest ends of an institution of learning.

President McCosh said at the beginning of his address, that he would not "compel students to attend religious services." Why then did he afterwards regret that "upward of eight hundred students at Harvard have asked that they be not required to attend prayers?" We cannot see the distinction between "compelling students to attend religious services" and their being "required to attend prayers," that Dr. McCosh seems anxious to make. Either there is some important distinction, or Princeton's president has been grossly illogical.