Fact and Comment

A Harvard Divinity School graduate recently wrote a communication to the Transcript complaining of the position and rights of the Divinity men compared with graduates of the other schools. He first declared that "Harvard University was founded to educate clergymen for the ministry, that it has the proud motto 'Christo et Ecclesiae,'" and asks "why is it that the Board of Overseers so discriminates against the regular graduates of the Harvard Divinity School."

"A bachelor of science, a mining engineer and a metallurgical engineer," he writes "are authorized (after the fifth annual election after they have received their degree) to vote for Overseers of the University. But a regular graduate of the Divinity School, who has to be a bachelor of arts even to enter the divinity course, and whose degree of bachelor of divinity (or Scientiae Theologicae) is only obtained after three years' further study, and after the successful passing of examinations in Hebrew, New Testament Greek, Comparative Religion, Biblical Criticism, Theology and Christian Morals-why is it that he is not considered by the Overseers as equally qualified to vote for Overseers?"

"On what ground is the bachelor of divinity held by the Overseers to be inferior to the bachelor of science, or to the mining engineer in his academic education especially when, if not a B. A. of Harvard, he must be a B. A. of some other college, even before he takes his three years' further studies in the Divinity School?"