THE communication which appears in another column suggesting that the proposed religious building should be erected to the memory of Bishop Brooks is one which will bear thoughtful consideration Bishop Brooks was so much a part of our own lives and of the life of the university as a whole, that we can hardly rest satisfied until some appropriate action is taken to perpetuate his memory among us and among those who are to take our places. That such a remembrance of him should imply the work which he has accomplished here at Harvard is a suggestion which everyone will appreciate. Bishop Brooks labored tirelessly and with the full energy of his enthusiasm for anything which tended to make us think more seriously, more intelligently of the opportunities and obligations of our lives here at college. He was thoroughly in sympathy with the movement to secure a building which should be the centre of the religious life of the university. Every undertaking at which he could aid by his words and presence, came to him not as a duty but a privilege, while the deep sincerity with which he shared all our work made us feel free to call upon him at all times, though this did not lesson the sense of our indebtedness to him. We have told before how opposed he was at first to the system of voluntary worship, and of how on more mature thought he turned heart and soul toward securing us our present method. When we consider all this and begin to realize how enwrapped he was in all that tended to our good, we cannot think of a more fitting tribute than to erect the new religious building to testify the deep love we have borne him and shall always cherish as one of our few best treasures.
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