Rev. S. M. Crothers, of the First Parish Church, Cambridge, conducted the services in Appleton Chapel last evening. This was the last regular service of the year. Mr. Crothers took for his text XXIII Proverbs 23; "Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding."

The primary aim of all our great institutions is not to prepare a man to fight the battle of life, and come out well endowed with this world's goods, but to cultivate the mind and raise the plane of civilization. A great university stands for truth. Here the scholar is met who has a real quest in life, from which he will turn for nothing. The scholar is the man who buys the truth and sells it not. No price is too great if only the truth is obtained, and no reward is asked.