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...writer of the editorial based his statements on representations which were entirely wrong, and, by relying on newspaper report, has grossly misrepresented the case...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - There is yet another complaint to be made by the suffering public. It is true that of late complaints have been so numerous in the communication column of the CRIMSON that outsiders may perhaps believe that all is wrong and nothing is right here at Harvard; but how can we be blamed...
...means of moral guidance ought to be assured the student. "We grant great freedom in the choice of study. But, we do not mean to have any senior . . . . say to us that since he entered college no one ever told him that there is a difference between Right and Wrong." This is trite enough, of course. No one denies for a moment that some means of moral guidance ought to be assured. But is the only way of affording this moral guidance by means of a compulsory service? We cannot believe it. On the contrary, we believe a compulsory service...
When Dr. Hale attempts to "put the same thing historically," he seems to forget that what was right and proper two centuries ago may be both wrong and improper to-day. Public sentiment and college sentiment once sanctioned a compulsory service; but compulsion then did not mean what compulsion means now. To-day there is no general sentiment either within or without the college which justifies a compulsory attendance at chapel. Religion has become utterly disassociated from any idea of compulsion. Prayer is held to be a matter between a man and his God, not between...
Without continuing this discussion further, Dr. Hale must know, unless he misunderstands us more than even his letter would indicate, that to nine-tenths of us a compulsory service is utterly distasteful and wrong. We know better than Dr. Hale what effect this service is having on the college. We know better than he that seniors go away from Harvard without religious belief, and with only a bitter hate and contempt in their hearts for the methods employed here to make them "moral." We know better than he what a spiritual waste and loss our present system carries with...