At Vassar

Last week a thorn was extracted from the side of Vassar's faculty-- compulsory chapel. Even as their contemporaries at Yale, Dartmouth, Amherst, Princeton and elsewhere have protested in these late years of undergraduate self-assertion that religion is a personal matter, so the young ladies on their high hill at Poughkeepsie have stoutly insisted that each should be permitted to save her soul in her own way, and that the community spirit expressed by daily and weekly chapel gatherings could be expressed quite as well by academic convocations for lectures and general discussion. Last winter the undergraduates presented the trustees with resolutions to that effect (TIME, Oct. 19). Last week the resolutions, agreed on by undergraduate and faculty committees, were adopted for effect next autumn. Of the colleges where compulsory chapel has lately been a live issue, Smith alone now remains content to keep the institution (TIME, May 24).