SAYS HOLDEN CHAPEL MAY BECOME MEMORIAL SHRINE

The objection to a Memorial Church on the grounds that the present Appleton Chapel involves a trust that must be perpetuated is an obstacle that can easily be surmounted, according to statements made yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter by Mr. L. P. Marvin '98, who has been actively interested since 1919 in the question of a suitable Memorial to Harvard men who fell in the recent war.

Mr. Marvin, who was chairman of the first Committee of the Board of Overseers on the War Memorial and of the Committee on the same subject of the Associated Harvard Clubs, and who is now a member of the Joint Committee of the Faculty Corporation and Board of Overseers, declined to give his own choice for the Memorial, or to say what he thought the probable selection would be. He did say, however, that "Both the committees now considering the question have come to the conclusion that the War Memorial should be of a nature to express for all time the spirit of patriotism and sacrifice shown by Harvard students and alumni, and especially" by those who lost their lives.

Not Purely Utilitarian

"Therefore the Memorial must not be of a purely utilitarian nature but must have a high spiritual significance. This limits the wide field of possibilities to a Monument; a New Memorial Church and possibly the use of Holden Chapel. Plans show that a beautiful shrine could be made out of the interior, but the objection is that the building would still be known only as Holden Chapel. The chief objections to a new church are the cost, involving delay, and the fact that Appleton Chapel was built from the gift of a Harvard graduate and therefore is a trust which must be perpetuated. The second objection can be nullified by having a chapel within the church to be used for morning services and to be called 'Appleton Chapel.,"