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To the Editors of the Crimson:

Cannot the proposed religious building, for which the three societies are trying to raise money, be made a memorial to Bishop Brooks? There ought to be a memorial of him in Cambridge, for he belonged to Harvard in a very special sense. How much he cared for the university was shown by the sacrifices he made to serve here as preacher during ten of the busiest years of his life. One of the few things that ever made him show impatience, was the consciousness, which came over him at times, how far the university fell below the very high ideal which he set for it and to which he always clung. In return, there certainly has been no one with in our memory towards whom the whole body of undergraduates have felt as they have toward him. Even among men whose usual attitude toward religion is inclined toward hostility, I never have heard him spoken of except with respect, often with much more than respect.

It is certainly fitting that the memorial of him should perpetuate more than his mere name. There can be no doubt of the need of the proposed building, or of the good it can do if it is used as it should be. It will become-like the similar building at Yale-the permanent centre for the whole religions life of the University. So to associate it with Phillips Brooks would be a help towards keeping this religious life what his whole teaching and personal influence went so far to make it,-unselfish and genuine and thoroughly manly. And there is one point of especial appropriateness. If he stood for anything, it was for unity of the positive kind: the sinking of minor differences in hard work for the fundamental aims which belong to all the denominations in common. He would be very glad, one cannot but feel, to have his name given to a building where Congregationalists and Unitarians and Episcopalians will be cooperating with each other.

What the response will be, if an appeal is made now for aid in putting up such a Phillips Brooks Hall, there cannot be much doubt.

PHILIP S. ABBOT, '90.