With the Sunday services and Monday morning prayers, the yearly exercises in Appleton Chapel are again begun. It has not been Harvard's practice to make attendance at religious services compulsory, but it can not be denied that her system is productive of good results. There is, however, one objection to it,- that it allows an unfortunate neglect of opportunity. Students are too likely to forget that the visiting preachers to the University are chosen from among the most noted throughout the country. To hear them from day to day, and to meet them in the friendly way which is here possible, is a privilege which all must forfeit when they leave Harvard. Nowhere else will there be found such a succession of divines who are the leaders in their respective denominations.

It is another fact to be considered that the University preachers often make great sacrifices in order to accept the invitation to come to Harvard. The University owes them a debt of welcome and appreciation, and it is a debt which the students should be glad to pay. To those of a religious temperament there will be genuine pleasure in that part of the payment which consists in attendance at the Chapel: to all there is bound to be great benefit. It is to be hoped that the services this year will attract even more than the usual number of students.