SNAP JUDGEMENTS

The letter in today's CRIMSON advocating more information on the proposed Memorial Chapel is indicative of a positive and widespread concern in the undergraduate body regarding this subject. As is suggested, the House Plan has in all probability prevented the completion of the fund for the building, but this does not exclude this subject from discussion. To the contrary, in view of the fact that no definite action has been taken, the present is the time when consideration would, be most valuable merely because it could affect the plans in their embryo state.

One of the chief considerations is the location of the building which was announced last year as the site of the present Appleton chapel. The first faul with this plan is that the Yard is no longer the population center of the college for with the completion of the new houses the majority of students will be living near the river. In addition to this, a building as large as the proposed chapel would occupy much of one of the last open spaces in the already well filled Yard. With unit number two of the houses obliterating one of the few grass plots remaining in this section of Cambridge, the college, authorities should avoid rather than project a crowded building plan.

These are merely two of the many points which should be openly discussed at this time when the chapel plans are still changeable. As potentially Harvard men, the undergraduates should be permitted to have some influence in deciding the many issues which the erection of this building will undoubtedly call up. The Harvard of the present is replete with the mistakes of a short-sighted past, and they indicate forcibly enough that decisions for the future should not be based on sudden conclusions.