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...shown in yesterday morning's "broadsides." The CRIMSON had no connection with this enterprise except that it allowed the distribution of the handbills at the same time as the morning CRIMSON, a paid service which it has extended before. It has no sympathy with the sensationalism of the protest or with the injection of the question of various religions. To heighten the agitation with the emotion of sectarianism is only to disrupt any united protest that might be achieved and to obscure the practical aspect by a cloud of bias, raised because of the irritation of a delicate subject...
...caused many new suggestions to be offered, all of which might might be considered. The 600 odd signers of the CRIMSON petition, which was originally proferred by a member of the faculty, have proven their opposition and have mentioned many possible substitutions. It is practically certain that all the protest purely against the chapel will avail nothing. The time for destructive criticism is at an end. Too much of it invariable tends to make the opposite side stubborn. When some agreement is reached on a memorial that would be fitting and useful a still stronger case for chapel opposition...
...glad to approve your protest against a chapel memorial to the Harvard men who died in the World War, and particularly your conclusion--"Any memorial, to be a valid tribute, must embody the united sentiment of those in whose name it is given...
Those who have been crying from the house-tops in protest against American universities' "compromises with babbittry" can momentarily forego their jeremiads to join in hallelujahs. The existing colleges have passed before the judgement seat and have been found wanting. Now Dr. Flexner, who led the prosecution, is himself to head an "Institute for Advanced Study," which will attempt to supply just what he believes the colleges lack...
...opinion of any sort. Its claim of paternal, royal, or even divine omniscience may in many cases be justified. Possibly it does, like Mother, Know Best. But in this instance it seems to the writer, the voice of the masses should at least make itself felt in protest. This, in other words, is a call to arms. When, fifty years from now, the "Memorial Chapel" stands with the still un-burnt Memorial Hall as a monument to uselessness, it should be known, that the present college generation, at least, was in opposition. I suggest a student committee to organize...