The fact that Cornell has established voluntary chapel attendance recalls to us the fate of our chapel petition. It would seem that Harvard, the source of the most liberal and progressive religious views of America, ought to be the first to do away with compulsory observance of religious forms. But, advanced as Harvard may be in its elective system and general spirit, yet this relic of puritanic times still hangs on her, a fetish of the present. The arguments against the system are too well known to be repeated, yet silent demurring will never accomplish the end that is so earnestly desired. As Franklin said: "Keep pegging away;" thus only is it possible to cast off a custom which must needs seem to all sober-minded men a disgrace to our college, binding on us as it does material observance of spiritual things. Let us have another petition.