College Ceases Renting Pews.

It has just been announced that at a meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College on December 14, it was voted to discontinue, at the end of the current academic year, the renting of pews in the following Cambridge churches: The First Unitarian Church, the First Congregational Church, Christ Church, the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, the Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church, and St. Paul's Catholic Church.

One reason for this change is that with the great increase in the number of students during recent years the churches ministering liberally to their needs are no longer confined, as in former time, to those in the immediate neighborhood of the College at which pews have hitherto been rented. This fact and the largely increased expenditure for religious services within the University have induced the Corporation to withdraw their contributions to the pew rents in the above named six churches.

During the year 1902-03, the University paid $1,831.50 for sittings in Cambridge churches.