CHANGES IN CHAPEL

Two changes in the chapel services for next year have been announced to the undergraduates as products of the trustees' meeting in March, and the deliberations of the College administration. Chapel during examinations has been definitely abolished; the last service for the present year will be the SingOut on June 6. The action taken in regard to examination chapel services resulted after full discussion by the administration committee of a petition from the class of 1915 relative to the sing-out exercises in- June. It petitioned that this be a compulsory chapel service in place of the morning exercises of June 11. It is understood that undergraduate agitation against chapel, and particularly directed against the services during examinations had nothing whatever to do with the abolition, which was made entirely on its own 'merits. The examination service has been unsatisfactory, as is manifested by the fact that the faculty has increased the allowance of cuts to be used for that purpose during the past three years. The Dartmouth has particularly advocated the abolition of the service.

From the trustees' meeting comes the statement that Sunday chapel services during next year will be under the charge of a board of speakers, to be selected from the best talent available outside of Hanover. This change is in line with the boards of chapel speakers already established at Yale, for example. What the effect of the resolution will be upon the general undergraduate attitude toward chapel is of course merely a matter of conjecture; that for a time, at least, it will stimulate interest, seems certain.