TABLE SHOWING STATISTICS ON RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN NEGRO COLLEGES
Units of Credit Given | Students in Voluntary Courses of Religious Education | | Students in Curriculum Courses of Education | | | College Students | | | | ---------------------------------------+---------+----------+---------+ Agricultural and M. College 20 15 11 Agricultural and T. Col. of N. C 35 11 30 Alcorn A. and M. College 152 40 115 Allen University 38 38 30 3 Atlanta University 59 12 50 1/4 Arkansas Baptist College 16 16 15 2-1/4 Biddle University 40 40 20 1 Benedict College 60 40 22 2 Bishop College 60 40 20 1 Claflin University 20 20 14 3-1/2 Clark University 21 7 14 2 Conroe College 14 10 12 1 Edward Waters College 32 15 2 Fisk University 208 110 90 4 Florida Agricultural and M. College 36 15 20 Georgia State College 29 15 17 Howard University 558 98 60 6 Hartshorn College 10 4 5 2 Knoxville College 33 33 30 4-1/2 Lane College 17 10 12 1 Lincoln University 163 163 100 4-1/2 Livingstone College 37 27 30 3 Morehouse College 65 34 40 1-3/4 Morgan College 46 46 46 1-1/2 Morris Brown College 21 21 19 3 New Orleans University 30 30 26 2 Paine College 11 6 11 2 Texas College 9 9 8 4 Roger Williams University 14 14 14 2-1/2 Rust College 12 10 12 2-1/4 Samuel Houston College 35 13 29 2 Shaw University 49 20 40 1-1/2 Shorter College 25 25 20 2-1/2 Spelman Seminary 6 6 6 2-1/2 State University 13 7 10 2 Straight College 36 0 29 2 Swift Memorial College 9 5 9 1-1/4 Talladega College 66 25 60 4 Tillotson College 34 19 11 3 Tougaloo University 16 9 11 2-1/4 Virginia Theological Seminary and Col.27 21 20 3 Virginia Union University 66 51 30 4-1/2 West Virginia Collegiate Institute 33 25 20 Wilberforce University 202 60 150 4-1/4 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
[1] This dissertation was in 1917 submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature of the University of Chicago, in candidacy for the degree of Master of Arts, by David Henry Sims.
The following sources were used in the preparation of this dissertation: _American Missionary Association Report_, 1916; _Baptist Missionary Society (Woman's) Reports_, 1910-1916; _Catalogues--Negro Colleges_, 1916-1917; W. E.B. DuBois, _Morals and Manners Among Negro Americans_, Atlanta University Publications, No. 18; _Journal of the Proceedings of the A. M. E. Church_ (General Conference), 1916; _Journal of the Proceedings of the Methodist Episcopal Church_ (General Conference), 1916; Thomas J. Jones, _Negro Education_, United States Bureau of Education, Bulletins 38 and 39, 1916; Thomas J. Jones, _Recent Movements in Negro Education_, United States Bureau of Education, 1912, Vol. I; _Questionnaires_, from Negro Colleges, 1917; United States Bureau of Education Investigations, _Education in the South_, Bulletin 30, 1933; Monroe N. Work, _Negro Year Book_, 1914, 1915, 1916; Young Men's Christian Association, _Report of the International Committee_, May 12, 1916; _Year Book_, 1915-1916.