There is, at present, among the students of this college, a desire for voluntary chapel-going, and a determination to secure a change in the existing inconsistency. To accomplish this end, a petition has been drawn up reading as follows:
PETITION TO THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
We, the undersigned, students at Harvard University, ask that attendance at morning chapel be made voluntary for students twenty-one years old, and optional, according to the wishes of the parents or guardians of students under twenty years of age.
This document is to be found at Bartlett's, and it is to be hoped that the under-graduates and other students of the college will avail themselves of this concerning a custom which is as ridiculous as it is disagreeable.
S.
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