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The Years of Trial
Pulpit and Podium | page 220

For the most part the students were not, at this time, wealthy or prominent or brilliant people. They were preponderantly in the middle range of the middle class, Protestant in background; but, contrary to the assumptions of many social historians, they were not overwhelmingly products of the larger cities suffering from the increasing tensions of industrialized urban living.