The Ivory Tower

At Harvard, Sir, We Do Not Fish For Souls—II

“For 323 years, Protestantism has supposedly been the traditional religion of Harvard. The only church in the Yard was consecrated in the Protestant tradition, and until recent years any course on religion taught in the College emphasized Protestant Christianity. Yet the religious attitude at Harvard [these days’] actually seems detrimental to Protestantism, since over 26 per cent of the [undergraduate] students born in this religion have since rejected it.”