WEARINESS TO THE FLESH

That Harvard examinations are designed, with unfailing success, to put the fear of Deity into their victims has long been an expressed opinion at certain stated times of the year; new confirmation, however, of this result appears in one of the several guidebooks to the city of Boston, which states that the daily chapel attendance, in the period before examinations, increases three or four hundred per cent. Here is matter alike for the preacher, the prophet, and the psychologist. The daily chapel attendance at Appleton is usually neither so large nor so small as to cause exceptional comment; that in periods of stress and strain it increases to such an extent is noteworthy.

If a football team which a few years ago attained national renown should have a moment of prayer before each game, there is surely no reason why the common run of undergraduates, about to enter a three-hour struggle not with their equals in ability but with examiners of far superior mentality to theirs, should not seek strength for the unequal contest. There can be no question, furthermore, but that the proper frame of mind, which many seek by prolonged slumbers or revelry the night before, can be more quickly obtained in the cloistered quiet of the chapel. In the Ecclesiastes there is both an excuse for the students dissoulty and for his at tendance at the morning service before the hour of trial-"much study is a weariness to the flesh" and-here is the text of the sermon-"remember thou thy Creator... while the evil days come not."