Theological Internes

To gain an idea of what their pastoral duties will be like, U. S. theological students spend much of their spare time doing welfare work, practising preaching in missions, doing pious chores for ministers. But for men of God there exists no compulsory interneship comparable to that fulfilled by men of medicine. Last week, simultaneously with announcing election of a new dean, the Divinity School (Protestant Episcopal) in Philadelphia announced a new "clinical" course of study which will give its students the longest scholastic year --eleven months--of any in the U. S. To be administered by new Dean Allen Evans Jr., 46, Wartime chaplain and for the past nine years the successful rector of Trinity parish, Hewlett, L. I., the new plan provides for hospital, social service and prison work for the Divinity School's so-odd students, under the supervision of experienced physicians, hospital and prison chaplains, wardens, welfare workers. For the first time seminarians may witness, and assist at so far as the canons of the Church permit, such rites as the baptism of a harlot's babe, last prayers for a condemned criminal.

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