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Cardinal Numbers

January/February 2004

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Religious denominations with student groups at Stanford: 50

Percent of college students who say they have discussed religion or spirituality with friends: 78

Requests in 2003 by incoming freshmen to be contacted by the campus Catholic group (the most-requested denominational group): 234

Bibles distributed worldwide by the Gideons every week: 1,000,000

Year that the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sang “Hail, Stanford, Hail,” leading to the popular acceptance of the Stanford Hymn: 1902

Sources: Office for Religious Life, Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA, U.S. Department of State, The Gideons International, A Chronology of Stanford University and its Founders.

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