A graduate of high standing suggests through the columns of the daily press, that the friends of "voluntary chapel" at Harvard, take pains, before returning their nominees for overseers to the committee, to satisfy themselves by private inquiry that their preferred candidates are favorable to the reform in question. This gentleman states in addition, that he is working to ascertain the opinions of all the candidates, and hopes to make them known to the public. This suggestion seems to us quite opportune. With such a large majority of the members of the board of overseers in favor of compulsory prayers, it will take some years, at least, to change the complexion of that body, even if all the new men each year should be advocates of "voluntary prayers." Every effort should be made to get the right men nominated, and then the nominees should be supported at the polls on Commencement Day. The younger graduates should wake up to the issue and remember the undergraduates who remain behind them attending prayers against their wills. It is the younger men on whom we must rest our hopes, for the older men are so wedded to the idea of prayer-going that an appeal to them would be practically useless. With hard work, aided by the liberalizing tendencies of the times, we hope to see voluntary prayers introduced within a few years, even if none of those now in college are able to enjoy this privilege.