The Growth of Agnosticism Among Students
According to the Washington Herald of January 22, the University of Pennsylvania has a rule requiring all students except those professing Catholicism or Judaism to attend chapel exercises. During a recent effort to enforce this rule a large number of the students sent notes to the provost, declaring themselves to be either agnostics or atheists, and claiming, as such, that they ought not to be compelled to attend chapel. A senior member of the Architectural School of this university states:— I cannot speak for the entire university, but I can say that ninety per cent of the men with whom I come in contact are either agnostics or atheists. In fact, I am even willing to go so far as to say that a wave of agnosticism is sweeping over the place.