The following unqualified commendation of our prayer petition appeared editorially in a recent issue of the New York Evening Post:

"The undergraduates of Harvard College are making another appeal to the governing bodies for the abolition of compulsory attendance upon prayers. Their petition presents the argument for the change very forcibly, pointing out that voluntary attendance would necessarily betoken genuine interest in the religious exercises, while the present sense of compulsion produces indifference, if not hostility, to the observance. They also urge with force that such compulsion of undergraduates is inconsistent with the entire freedom conceded to students in the scientific school and in all other departments of the university, while the abolition of compulsory attendance upon Sunday services at church, and the remission twice a week of compulsory attendance upon prayers, already conceded, leave no logical ground for the retention of further compulsion in religious matters. In fact the petitioners have the argument all on their side, and we imagine that, if their request should be denied, the authorities would find it decidedly embarrassing to 'state at length reasons for such rejection,' as they are asked to do. The truth is that compulsory attendance upon prayers is a survival of methods based upon entirely different theories of education than those which are now accepted, and offends the sense of justice as much as the refusal to give due weight to the testimony of an honest man simply because he says that he does not know whether there is a God or not."