MEMORIAL SERVICE IN CHAPEL

A memorial service in observance of the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Harvard will be held in Appleton Chapel this morning in place of the usual morning prayers. The service will be a half hour in length, beginning at the usual time, 8.45 o'clock, and ending at 9.15 o'clock. By vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the time of commencing regular recitations this morning will be 9.15 o'clock.

Professor Edward C. Moore, Chairman of the Board of Preachers to the University, will conduct the service and read the prayers. Short addresses of about ten minutes each will be made by Professor Francis G. Peabody '69 and Dr. Lyman Abbott, D.D., h.'90. Professor Peabody will speak on "John Harvard's Religion," and Dr. Abbott's subject will be "The Church in the College." The choir will sing the following specially selected anthems: Mendelssohn's "Periti autem" and Gounod's "Domine salvam fac."

The order of the service will be as follows:

Organ Prelude.

Responsive Reading.

Anthem--Mendelssohn.

Periti autem fulgebunt ut fulgor aethereus. Quique multos reddiderunt justos erunt stellarum similes in omnem aeternitatem.

Scripture Reading--Professor Moore.

Address by Dr. Peabody.

Anthem--Gounod.

Domine salvam fac Universitatem nostram et exaudi nos in die qua invocaverimus te.

Address by Dr. Abbott.

Prayer--Professor Moore.

Harvard Hymn--"Deus omnium creator."

Benediction.

The service will be open to the public.