Caption: Booklet - Citizenship at UI (1929)
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girls ire cither members of or express a preference for some hurch, Another tabulation made last vear showed that "out of these 12,1 i) students, 9,604 declared thev were affiliated with some religious Organization." dliev represented about 40 denominations. The Methodist Episcopal church led with 2,458 students; the Presbyterian ehureh was second witli 1,303, and the Roman Catholic ehureh third with 1,129. The churches have leaped to the opportunity which those figures epitomize. Seven thoroughly organized religious foundations sentinel the campus. T h e Catholics and the Methodists to the students in stately structures which demic in architecture and richly equipped make for ennobling social and cultural life. center their servii are thoroughly acawith facilities that T h e Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Baptists, Congregationalists, the Disciples of Christ and the Jews have as yet no such structural equipment as the N e w m a n foundation ( R o m a n Catholic) and the Wesley foundation (Methodist Episcopal), but their work is well orinized. A Welcome to the World T h e Spirit of that work, whether it be directed from the \\ v foundation, which cost half a million, or from the Newman foundation, which, with its lovely chapel, cost a million, is - pen n tlv conveyed by words which I copied from a bronze tablet n interior wall of the Newman foundation. Thus they read: This group of buildings >mprising the Newman foundation has been en ted t<> offer to the students at the Um • > ty of Illinois, who come from all parts of our >iati<>n and from foreign lands as strangers in our midst, the mfort f hom the warmth of the fit <ide, and tl: touch f the family life. To student pruna from . ry raee and j m v / K/1 // and religious a ed it offers a mmon home i sanctuary Win ideals i tl fostering Oj friendship and denu TQ v. c/ j f the per; tUOtion of the finest traditions i and a hnne for the de elopment of the noblest Amen \n Hj and manhood 'I every I t sellable the Newman foundation fulfills the romi* and m • I the obligation of those words, for in its dor < ijtorirs dwell in amity Catholics. Protestants, Jews, and those • no a ion In amity, I said, and on the whol< that is true. hi l,; th,. [, i, the twinkling chaplains of the foundation told i), ,. V n i isional moan from the lush boys that s,vr I sv omewhal <w " f 17)
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