![]() In their newspapers and pamphlets, religious conservatives of the 1920s circulated dire warnings of the effect of mainstream college on innocent young people. ![]() In 1921, Bryan sarcastically invited universities to put up warning signs: “Our class rooms furnish an arena in which a brutish doctrine tears to pieces the religious faith of young men and young women parents of the children are cordially invited to witness the spectacle.” He told crowds that American colleges had gone off the rails when they abandoned traditional Protestant values. Former Secretary of State and presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan led the fight against mainstream higher ed. ![]() The drive for a new network of reliably conservative colleges started in the 1920s, as mainstream colleges grew increasingly secular in their curricula and their students grew increasingly interested in partying.
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