APOLLO--APOLLYON

Appleton Chapel, now covered with iv, of soft autumn red, has for one of its chief uses recitals on the organ, which at this time of year seems to vibrate with the symphonic andante of deepening autumn. There this afternoon Mr. Woodworth will give the first of five recitals, playing several Bach compositions, including the choral prelude which was Bach's last week. It is hardly necessary to say that it is not as an chapel that Appleton exists for most Harvard men. Though offering non-sectarian services without compulsory attendance, and though well advertised to Freshmen in all their first notices, still Appleton Chapel is rarely used by the average undergraduate, who has gone there perhaps once from curiosity and once more to hear a special preacher. The statistics of week-day service attendance are well known.

It is with the growth really of a pagan idea of and appreciation of beauty-sometimes sacred, not always--that Appleton Chapel servos now most of Harvard and much of Cambridge as well. The Christmas carols conducted by Dr. Davison, with such reward to all who hear them; the playing of the organ there each day for a few minutes before the beginning of midyear examinations; the singing of the chapel choir; and organ recitals--these are the majority's reasons for going to chapel. They are sound reasons even if pagan.