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CHURCH REPRESENTATION

Twenty-six Denominations Represented In Registration Figures.

Twenty-six different churches are represented in the University according to statistics compiled from the Phillips Brooks House register. Of 1898 men who registered from the College, 1311, or 69 per cent., are members of Christian denominations; 142, or 7 per cent., are of non-Christian churches; and 445, or 24 per cent., are unprofessed.

Of 352 who registered from the Graduate School (with the exception of the Medical School) 252, or 77 per cent., are members of Christian denominations; and 67, or 20 per cent., are unprofessed.

The principle churches with their representations are as follows:   Coll. Grad.  Schs.  Total Episcopalian,  403  59  462 Unitarian,  207  29  236 Congregationalist,  197  42  239 Catholic,  192  17  209 Hebrew,  135  11  146 Meth. Epic.,  81  17  98 Baptist,  63  17  80 Presbyterian,  57  11  68 Methodist,  39  15  54 Universalist,  21  8  29 Lutheran,  13  4  17 Christian Science,  12  5  17

Other churches represented were: Christian, Swedenborgian, Reform Jewish, Ethical Culture, Quakers, Dutch Reform, Evangelist, Buddhist, Greek, Hindu, Moravian, Disciplers, Reform Church. Of these, none were represented by more than nine men.

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