EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -There has been a great deal said in your paper about doing away with compulsory attendance at prayers, and in Wednesday's paper we were treated editorially with the startling announcements that "the college was a unit against it," and that chapel going was responsible for much of the infidelity for which Harvard has become notorious. How the writer arrived at the latter conclusion from the arguments he used is a conundrum. He says the Harvard authorities have decided that it is only necessary to worship God four times a week, while formerly seven times was the required number, and then wants to know if there is an evolution towards no prayers, and if two prayers a week will not in years to come, be enough. All that seems like child's talk. The authorities allow as a good many cuts, to be sure, and we all know that there are times when we are glad we don't have to go, and can spend a few minutes more on our studies, or on the morning CRIMSON; but we don't keep our rooms with any feeling that attendance at Chapel "four times a week is enough for salvation." It is urged by the opponents of compulsory chapel, that the only reason for attendance is the keeping up of an old custom. Well, it seems to me, if that were the only reason, it ought to have considerable weight. Don't we speak of the college as our "Alma Mater?" and are not we, the students, in a certain sense all members of one great family? And is it not fitting that the family should all be together once every day? I can't see why it should be considered a hardship to attend chapel, except by those men who indulge in expensive "sprees" and go to bed at 2 A. M., regularly. It certainly doesn't hurt any man who can get up at 8 o'clock, to spend fifteen minutes in the chapel before going to recitations, and if it doesn't, where does the grievance come in? The old custom of compelling attendance at morning prayers should not be abolished without weighty reasons. Harvard's reputation for remissness about religious matters is bad enough already.

E. P.,'88.