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Appleton Chapel.

Rev. Endicott Peabody, principal of the Groton School, preached at Appleton Chapel last evening, taking his text from the first chapter of St. Paul's epistle to the Romans, verse 14: "I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians; both to the wise and to the unwise."

The sermon asserted the obligation of every man to pass on to whom he may the gifts with which God has blessed him; to leave the beaten path of selfishness and give himself to the service of others. It showed how in particular the duty came home to Harvard men. In the college, more than anywhere else, there is a vast store of energy, vitality, health and wealth of all things of which the world has need. The problem which consciously or not is decided by each student is whether in the use of these he shall consult his own exclusive advantage, or shall consider that he holds all

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