Every year a cry arises about "infidelity at Harvard." and goes flying all over the land to arouse discussion and alarm. Every year it becomes necessary for the Harvard papers to denounce any such thing through their editorial columns. In accordance with this good old custom we again take our stand and diny that Harvard is any worse than the rest of the world in religious matters. Just how this rumor begins it is hard to conceive. Probably it is owing to the attempt made to abolish chapel, and to the fact that certain men with infidel views go forth from here every year. But these persons so vigorous in their cries of alarm, would say fully as much as the students if they were taught that the only way to make men worship God was to whip them in against their will. If there is any tendency toward infidelity it is owing to this fact, and not to the influence of the great student body. Also it is a matter of necessity in a university of the size of Harvard, where students come from all classes and all states, that there should be some few men who are infidels. There is a miniature world here, and it is made up like the outside world. But in reality, a part of this cry is owing to the fact that when a man excepts a scientific fact like the Darwinian theory, that he is supposed to be going to the bad. A man comes here to be broadened in his views. not to be taught dogmatically what he shall and what he shall not believe. Our university is founded only to teach men how to think, and not what to think. It must, therefore be unsectarian, but on this account it does not become irreligious. Freedom of worship is a necessary factor in any liberal form of government. And moreover, on the score that the influence here is toward indidelity we emphatically deny the charge. There is every good influence at work here if a man will only take them, in culture, in education and in religion.