GRADUATES FAVOR CHAPEL AS FINEST WAR MEMORIAL

The Harvard War Memorial, a new chemistry laboratory, and new University dormitories, will all be considered at the Associated Harvard Clubs Convention in Kansas City on May 25 and 26. The recommendations of the many committees and the decision of the convention on these matters, while having no actual executive power will go far, toward influencing those in authority at the University in their actions on these matters.

The war memorial committee, before deciding upon its recommendation, had its chairman, Charles Moore '78, of Washington, D. C., send a circular letter to all members of the Associated Harvard Clubs, asking the following three questions:

1. Should the location of the War Memorial await a general plan for the physical growth of Harvard University and be made a feature of that plan?

2. What, in your opinion, should be the character of a memorial: a monument, a chapel, or some other form?

3. Do you favor any particular location?

Graduates Favor Chapel as Memorial

The committee reports that "in the answers to these questions, there was an overwhelming opinion that the location of the memorial should await a general plan of University expansion, and a large majority of the members declared themselves in favor of a new chapel, as the highest expression of the spirit which actuated the men in the World War." Among the members of this committee who signed its report are: President Eliot. General Leonard Wood, M. D., '84, Bishop C. H. Brent, H. '13, J. S. Sargent, H. '16, R. W. Child '03, F. D. Roosevelt '04, Theodore Roosevelt '09, and Hanford MacNider '11.

Immediate measures for raising funds for a new chemical laboratory at the University are imperative, according to the report of a committee of graduates appointed by L. P. Marvin '98, president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, to consider the needs of the department of chemistry.

Condition of Boylston Unbelievable

Stating emphatically that the present physical dilapidation of Boylston Hall, the main chemical laboratory, is "almost beyond belief", and that thirty-three years ago it was already considered antiquated, the committee asserts that even if this building is extensively repaired, "the only result achieved will be a third-class laboratory that has accommodations for about one-half the number of students that will be forced to work in it. It would be utterly impossible to provide for normal growth by such means."

"Every graduate who has a son going to the University should visit Boylston Hall and see where he will have to work," reports the committee. "What can be said for the professors who have to do the teaching? Simply that devotion to the University and their belief in its future has kept them at their posts. Every one of them could step out into better positions. In theoretical chemistry the Harvard staff have no superiors in America today. It is manifestly difficult, however, to hold a faculty together when such sacrifices are demanded; and new professors from the outside are not attracted to Harvard, which is not a healthy condition for any faculty to be in. How long then must chemistry at the University be confined to the narrow, unsuitable, inadequate bounds that restrict and distort its growth?"

Vitally Concerns all University Men

"The present inadequate provision for the study of chemistry is not a matter that concerns only the Division of Chemistry when as many as 35 to 45 per cent of the undergraduates are involved. The necessity of the occasion demands that every University man and every friend of the University should at once become interested in this most vital need. When the Associated Harvard Clubs and the alumni really understand this deplorable and impossible condition of the Division of Chemistry, this committee believes that they will not rest until the situation is cured."

The committee of Harvard graduates which made the report is headed by Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. '00, of Saint Louis, Mo. The other members are Dr. W. S. Thayer '85, of Baltimore, Md., Professor T. W. Richards '86, of Cambridge, W. C. Forbes '92, of Westwood; M. H. Ittner, Ph.D. '96, of Jersey City, N. J.; Eugene DuPont '97, of Greenville, Del.; Eliot Wadsworth '98, of Washington, D. C.; G. C. Kimball '00, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; I. P. Hazard '95, of Syracuse, N. Y.; and Elihu Thompson, S. D. (Hon.) '09, of Swampscott.

Submit Many Other Reports

Reports submitted by other committees of the Associated Harvard Clubs and published in the current issue of the University Alumni Bulletin recommended that a scholarship be established at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, which was John Harvard's almamater, in memory of Lionel de Jersey '15, who was killed in action at Arras in 1917 while serving as first lieutenant and acting captain in the Grenadier Guards: that the committee which is raising $250,000 to endow five professorships at Berea College, Kentucky, in memory of Professor N. S. Shaler '62, the great Harvard geologist, be continued for another year to go on with the campaign, which has already secured more than $50,000; and that the Associated Harvard Clubs establish an employment service with a central clearing house in New York.

The suggestion of a scholarship, or "studentship", at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to "enable a properly qualified graduate of Harvard College to enjoy for one year or more the advantages of residence there" is made by a large committee headed by E. H. Wells, '97, of New York City. Their report quotes from a letter from Dr. Peter Giles, master of Emmanuel College, approving the plan and offering that the holder of the "studentship" should receive his rooms and commons free.

Wants Overseers More Representative

The chairman of the committee on service to the University, E. M. Grossman '96, of Saint Louis, in a report prepared too late for discussion with other members of the committee, recommends "that a special committee be appointed to observe and study methods of nomination and election of Overseers and to report such changes and improvements as will tend to give Overseers a more truly representative character". Eight members of the committee, in addition to the chairman, approved the report; from ten more to whom the report was submitted no replies were received. Two members the ground that they consider the present method satisfactory, and a third adds his name with the reservation that he believes the present method of nominating Overseers by committee and by petition "has always given the voting body ample opportunity to make excellent suggestions", but that he sees no harm in "investigating the general subject to ascertain if, by ingenuity, an even better plan may be devised."

Wants Medical School Dormitory

The committee on dormitory requirements and relations of the graduate schools, headed by Malcolm Donald '99, of Boston, states that "a dormitory for the Medical School, including a dining hall, additional dormitories for the Law School, and a dormitory or dormitories for the Business School are, in our opinion, required at the present time".

L. P. Marvin '98, president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, records in his report "steps which, it is hoped, will be fruitful in the development of the team-play and unity of the University family". The Board of Overseers, he says, has established a standing committee on alumni relations, and the Corporation, on recommendation of the Board, is to appoint a Secretary for Alumni Relations. The committee on alumni relations now consists of J. D. Greene '96, E. C. Felton '79, and Henry James '99, representing the Board of Overseers, and President Lowell, President Robert Grant of the Alumni Association, and President Marvin of the Associated Harvard Clubs, ex-officio.

Harvard Clubs Organized Abroad

There are now 112 Harvard Clubs which belong to the Associated Harvard Clubs, President Marvin reports. Of these, 99 are in the United States, 3 in Canada, and 10 in foreign countries or insular possessions. The Harvard Club of Berlin has been reorganized under Ambassador A. B. Houghton '86; Ambassador R. W. Child '03, is president of the Harvard Club of Rome; and the newly-formed Harvard Club of Paris has completed a fund of 25,000 francs to send a French boy to Harvard, the first 1000 francs having been contributed by Ambassador Herrick