Ranks of the ministry are today being recruited from men who have to work their way through both college and divinity school, because well-to-do parents discourage their sons from entering the profession, Willard L. Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School says in his annual report, made public Saturday.

Sperry Says

As a result the late practice of awarding excess subsidies to students has developed at many divinity schools. he said. "We have been the spearhead of a movement which has looked to improving the standard of the ministry by reducing large and indiscriminate theological scholarships, and by throwing the costs of his study more and more upon the student himself," the report states.

"The enrollment at Harvard for the year was 61," Continues Dean Sperry. "Thirty-seven students from affiliated schools registered with us. The total of approximately 100 men under theological instruction here is, in round numbers, the figure which has been in force for the past ten years. Twelve theological degrees were conferred at Commencement. Of these twelve men, ten have gone on into the parish ministry, two have turned toward academic life.