The following is from the first issue of the Williams Fortnight: "The pros and cons of this question have been thoroughly discussed both by the college press and the outside world, and the general verdict is that compulsory chapel must go. A student can gain no spiritual advantage from attendance at a service against his will, and he is, moreover, provided he has reached his majority, better qualified to judge concerning such a matter, than the faculty. Leaving out the question as to spiritual benefit, the compulsory attendance at prayers cannot train a man to be more punctual than the necessity to be in class-room at the recitation hour. In fact, there is no earthly excuse for clinging to the old puritanical and narrow-minded policy of compulsory chapel. The college world demands the change and corporations must certainly yield."
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A Change at Memorial.
