Revival at Yale?

"German guns are silenced, but the spiritual battle is not yet won."

Thus, with a reminder that Hitler was one of the first modern men to grasp the significance of the decay of Christian faith, the Yale University Christian Association last week asked alumni to give their moral and financial support to a postwar religious program just recommended by a faculty committee of eleven.*

The Yale committeemen declared that a university which fails to promote a vigorous religious life among its students is shirking one of its major responsibilities. The committee proposed that Yale's Department of Religion, which now offers only four courses, taught by instructors from other departments, be enlarged. As a starter, the department might employ full-time instructors in psychology and the history of Christianity. Eventually it should include an anthropologist, a historian, a linguist, specialists in non-Christian religions and in the philosophy of religion.

"If Yale is looking for a venture which will be acclaimed for its leadership and vision in the country and in the world," said the committee, "we believe that this is the venture. ... A study of prayer, faith and deeds will be no less profitable than the same sort of study in economics and agriculture."

*For news of a Harvard committee's report, see EDUCATION.

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