Next Sunday morning the University religious exercises will once more be held in Appleton Chapel. The removal to the Faculty Room of University Hall was a wise action from the standpoint of saving coal, but it did not prove successful as far as attendance is concerned. This apathy of undergraduates may have resulted from force of habit-our young men could never find their way to University Hall-or from a conviction that the Faculty Room did not have the fitting appointments. An average of forty or fifty a day is indicative, if discouraging.
Voluntary chapel is unquestionably the only scheme dear to the hearts of Harvard men, and justly so. Unless the spirit of this year increases, however, a few may become less certain of the wisdom of the Harvard plan. The removal to Appleton offers a good opportunity to prove that it has been habit or a nice sense of the fitness of things which has kept many of us away from chapel.
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A Question of Habitat
