A WORD FOR HOLDEN

While the new Georgian Harvard has been growing up off every hand, little has been said about preserving or even recognizing Harvard's heritage of genuine Colonial buildings. In particular, though Holden Chapel is conceded to be an unusual felicitous example in miniature of Colonial design, the inside of the building cannot be shown to visitors without apology. It has been allowed to degenerate into a dreary classroom whose mutilated boners and chairs are suggestive of some foreign country school.

This building should have a more significant part to play. For example, it could be cleared of its present furniture, repainted, and fitted with auditorium chair. It would then most gracefully become a small hall for visiting lecturers and speakers before various undergraduate organizations, who usually talk in the depressing greyness of Emerson D.