The endowment drive, given impetus by the Rockefeller gift of $1,000,000, is prospering. Also, the tuition will be raised from $150 to $400 per year beginning next fall, bringing the cost of Harvard theological education up to that of Yale and Union.

Professor from Other Schools

Ironically enough, the heads of Union and Yale Seminaries, Henry P. Van Dusen and Liston pope, on the committee which is searching for a new dean for the School, must face seeing Harvard threatening literally to seal their best professors from under their noses. Paul Tillich's world-famous professor of Philosophical Theology from Union, will come here next year as a University Professor Tillich's presence on the faculty will immediately increase the Divinity School's prestige.

President Pusey has been talking with several other professors for the deanship and teaching here, such as David E. Roberts, professor at Union.

The retirement of many old professors, the imminent appointment of a new dean, and the placing of new professors gives the School an opportunity to revamp its teaching program although, supplementing its traditional historical approach with more modern methods of training.

It is evident that the Divinity School should easily recover and regain its status not only here, but in comparison with the other centers of theological training.

Outside the University proper, there are over a dozen churches circling the Square, which serve the needs of student. The largest groups are the Episcopal, the Jewish, and the Roman Catholic, respectively. These carry on weekly worship services, discussion groups, service projects, production of plays, social functions, and retreats, B'nal B'rith Hillel Foundation, for instance, conducts special freshman receptions, dinners, and arts and crafts groups, as well as weekly forums, and periodic retreats under the leadership of Rabbis Maurice Zigmond and Phineas Kadushin. Although these groups have no official connection with the University, they work with it closely through the United Ministry to Students.

Feeney a Grim Warning

Perhaps the most telling indication of the religious interest of the community is an enumeration of the various controversies of the past year.

Feeneyism is a much discussed topic. Leonard J. Feeney is a constant reminder of what Harvard as a whole never became and of what religious bias can do to a man and his followers living at war with society. His only influence today is in providing the University community with a warning and with something about which to laugh grimly.

The protest against the possible new order of things at the appointment of Hastie at PBH has been mentioned before. The fear exemplified in this controversy that religion was to be forced upon students was intensified when students learned of the religious background of Pusey, the new president.

Nathan Marsh Pusey is a religious man. As president of Lawrence College, he affirmed "Lawrence College was founded and is still really motivated on the principle that God is the central fact in our universe." As far as he is concerned, this holds true for Harvard too. The original meaning of Veritas, "although it must be translated somewhat in reference to our times," essentially holds today. "The word 'Veritas' originally signified not only scientific truth, but also divine truth. A new conception of truth has become prevalent with positivism, but this is not the truth of Veritas, which expresses the truth of the totality of human experience. In a sense, God and truth are synonymous."

To Make Facilities Available

Students and faculty alike were at first afraid that Pusey might attempt to reestablish compulsory chapel or assembly similar to that which to conducted at Lawrence. But he has made clear that he is not interested in compulsion or revivalism in the prayer-meeting sense. But he is intensely interested in providing facilities for religious study and participation for those who want them.

A statement which he made at Lawrence indicates his general interest, "I do not believe in a lot of moralistic preaching any more than our students do, nor do I wish to promote any particular creed or a new revivalism. But at the same time I feel an obligation to help students to become conscious, if they have not already done so, of the spiritual potentiality they have within them, and to know that life lived at a merely human level is not very satisfactory life for men."