KEEP INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM IN AMERICA, CONANT URGES

President James B. Conant urged the country to keep cool despite the war and to remain the "last citadel" of reason and the home of scholarship, when he delivered an address yesterday morning at the Chapel Service in Harvard Memorial Church.

"Great is the responsibility of the American universities, great, indeed, is the challenge to American youth" to preserve "the freedom of the human mind," President Conant said. He added, however, that he did not believe that civilization's end is near.

More pessimistic was the address of George La Piana, John H. Morison Professor of Church History, yesterday at the first meeting of the Divinity School when he charged that the Church, despite its 20 centuries of existence, had failed to "Christianize politics."