THE discovery by the Corporation that, by a clause in the will of the donor, Appleton Chapel can only be used for religious services and public exercises is a most unfortunate one, as it necessitates finding some other place for the instruction in elocution which is now given there by Mr. Riddle. We understand that he is now reduced to the alternative of giving his lessons either in the old Gymnasium or in Upper Massachusetts. Considering the fact that neither of these rooms can be heated, and that they are poorly adapted for this use even if they could be, this proposition seems about as cool as the emperature is likely to be. When an instructor has over one hundred and thirty pupils, it is but fair to ask that some decent provision be made for them, and we earnestly request the powers that be to have Sanders Theatre heated during the winter, and used as the instruction room in elocution. Even if the expense would be large, it would be worth incurring; but we have ascertained that it would be comparatively small. The cost of heating the theatre from the middle of this month up to the middle of April would be about one hundred and sixty dollars, and if the amount which would be paid in any case for heating it for evening entertainments be deducted, the net cost would be less than one hundred dollars. We cannot believe that even Harvard College is so poor that it cannot afford to devote this sum to keeping up the interest of one hundred and thirty men in an important study, especially when it is rich enough to waste many times as much in paying useless and inefficient janitors.
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