Feeling that the daily chapel services have outworn their usefulness, the Daily Dartmouth and the Beans, through their editorial columns, propose to substitute an open forum for the present morning service at Dartmouth.
The editors suggest that "three mornings of each week, five minutes of the service be turned over to individual members of the social science departments and others who are informed in international relations, world court, etc., and who are willing to give unbased analysis of such problems."
The Daily Dartmouth in its editorial says: "Religion does not consist of moralizations from homely parables, and when undergraduates are not shown the implications of fundamental religious principles in political life, small wonder they are apathetic."
The joint proposal of the Daily Dartmouth and the Bema is not considered as a radical action by the Jack-o-Lantern, which seriously proposes that chapel be abolished.
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