Abstract

3 Campus Reports. "The Hidden Generation"

The State of Washington and its public-supported university have always tended toward secularism. A few years ago when church membership in the nation rose to 50 per cent, Washington claimed a bare 25 per cent. In the past few years, however, this impulse to ignore the national trend has somewhat abated. Religious interest-along with conservative political inclinations claim increasing importance in people collective conscience. The university itself has no chapel on the campus, and no departments issuing degrees in theology. The philosophy department has one course dealing with the problems of free will, immortality and the English department conducts one in the Bible as literature. Since the university operates on the quarter system, this is brief coverage for so vast a field.