To those already familiar with Harvard customs the system of voluntary prayers needs no explanation or recommendation. To those, however, who are as yet strangers at Cambridge a word on this subject may be said. The system they will find here in vogue is of course new to them. They have hitherto been unused to perfect freedom, and religion has doubtless been more of an obligation than a privilege. They hear the Chapel bell with a consciousness that it rather invites than summons them, and for a moment they hesitate in the exercise of their duty. They forget, perhaps, that the obligation to attend religious service is now even stronger than before, that what once seemed a matter of routine is now a matter of conscience. But this must not be. The system of religious services, renewed yesterday, is still an experiment. That it has met the expectations of the past does not assure its success in the future. This rather lies in the will of the students. Everything has been done and is doing to make the Chapel services attractive. For their proper maintenance, however, every Harvard man is responsible.