Education: At Dartmouth

“I feel very happy about the entirely new spirit that has come with the abolition of compulsion. In the recent past, daily services were worse than a joke—blasphemy under the name of religion. The men would cough, read books and magazines and talk with one another. Even during the Sunday services . . . there was always the feeling that the lid might blow off at any time. . . . I would rather have 50 interested men coming here willingly than 1,500 coming because they have to and sitting through the services mad.” Thus Rev. Roy B. Chamberlain, writing last week in the Boston Herald upon the effect of a ruling (TIME, Oct. 19) that relieved undergraduates of compulsion to attend services in the chapel of Dartmouth College, of which the Rev. Mr. Chamberlain is director.