THE NEW CHAPEL

In the accompanying reply to the CRIMSON'S editorial of Tuesday, Mr. Allston Burr, chairman of the Harvard War Memorial Fund Committee, probably echoes the sincere sentiments of many interested alumni. Although the project was discussed and approved first by the national committee and Associated Harvard Clubs, and then by the Corporation, yet the objections of both faculty members and undergraduates have been consistently disregarded. A majority of both of the latter groups, as well as numerous alumni of the last decade, have been the most violent opponents of the plan for a new chapel in place of Appleton. The desire of the committee to produce some tangible results from their labor is readily understandable. Yet to settle the question by the immediate building of a chapel seems inadvisable in the face of so much opposition.

Even to attempt returning the money already donated, and thereby give up any idea of a memorial to Harvard's World War dead would undoubtedly be a "disgrace to the Harvard Corporation and to all other Harvard men connected with this cause." Yet if "to use the fund for any other memorial would be a breach of trust," it would be still more futile to erect a memorial whose significance would be lost to the great proportion of those for whom it is intended.