education?
9. What voluntary religious organizations have you, for example:
the Y.M.C.A., Students Volunteer Movement, B.Y.P.U., C.E. League,
College Church, Sunday School, etc.?
10. Are the teachers or conductors of your voluntary
organizations professionally trained (viz, as in question 7)?
11. How many students are enrolled in your voluntary
organizations?
12. What opportunity have the students for the expression of
ideals received through these organizations? What Christian work
is done, such as handling boys' or girls' clubs, ministering to
the poor and infirm, orphans, foreign missions, visiting prisons,
asylums, or orphanages, teaching vacation Bible schools, etc.?
13. What is your own estimate of the religious value of your
courses and organizations? Have you any definite data upon which
to base your estimate?
14. Does your school have a special appropriation for religious
work, viz: for the Y.M.C.A., for a chaplain, college pastor,
etc.?
15. In your opinion, are the Negro colleges meeting the needs of
definite religious training?
16. Any other information or suggestion concerning religious
education in Negro colleges will be gladly received.
QUESTIONNAIRE NO. II
1. What is your estimate of the religious services at your
college, viz: Church preaching service, Sunday School, Young
People 's meetings, Week-day Prayer meetings, Week of Prayer for
colleges, Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A. or any other religious service?
(Mark each according to your estimate as Church 1, Prayer meeting
2, Y.W.C.A. 3, etc.)
2. What are the items of importance in these respective services,
the sermon, prayer, ritual, congregational singing, special
music, etc.?
3. Why did you make the preceding ranking as you did?
4. What suggestion have you to offer for the improvement of these
services? What other criticism have you to offer on these
services?
5. What is your church affiliation? For example, Baptist,
Methodist, Presbyterian, etc.?
The majority of Negro institutions--all included in this study--have
published statements concerning religious education in their
respective curricula and voluntary organizations. These statements
appear in announcements, catalogues, and reports. These have been
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