The YMCA was founded at the University of Tennessee on February 2, 1877. In 1890, a College Association Building (the second of its kind in the United States) was constructed on the Hill. Women were admitted to the University in 1893, and a branch of the YWCA was operating on campus by 1897. Protestantism flourished on campus from the 1920s to the 1950s as administrators sought to dispel the idea that a university education was inherently offensive to God by promoting Christian activities and founding the Tennessee School of Religion. All of the independent Christian organizations on campus were consolidated as the University Christian Associations in 1933, allowing them to share a single staff, budget, and program. The UCA organized such programs as the Mid-Winter Convocation, Freshman activities, Torch Night, Aloha Oe, the Student-Faculty Dinner, the Community Thanksgiving Service, and the Easter Sunrise Service. It flourished until the 1960s, when questions arose as to the legality of conducting religiously themed events on a public university's campus, professors began to express concerns that the Tennessee School of Religion's mission was inherently opposed to the University's academic trajectory, and the School of Religion's constitutionality was challenged.