Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford and the universities of Chicago and Southern California are among major, private universities that have followed a similar trajectory with respect to religion during the 20th century. Founded by Protestant Christians with considerable enthusiasm and hope in progress through both education and the up building of Christian character, these institutions espoused the faith and ethics of increasingly liberalized forms of Protestantism
via Frederick Borsch: More God on the Quad: Religions on Campus.
