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...fellow, Alford Professor and president. The service opened promptly at 10.30 with the rendition of an organ voluntary and the singing of the anthem "Integer Vitae" by the college choir. Then followed an invocation by Rev. Pitt Dillingham, Mendelssohn's "Beati Mortui" by the chapel choir, reading from Scriptures, prayer of dedication by Rev. J. H. Morison, response (Schubert Savetus) and a hymn by the congregation...
...colorless the prayer he said...
...suggested that the number of the prayer be posted in chapel with those of the psalm and hymn...
...offences in the eyes of a stern and unsympathizing public to listen to such accounts as this of the rowdyism of English and Scotch students. Pelting professors with peas and rushing them through a melee is certainly not characteristic of American students, neither is uproarious applause of a prayer nor interrupting academical ceremonies with cat-calls and mock psalm tunes. The American student does not wish to be pharisaical, but he humbly pleads for a milder judgment upon his harmless peccadilloes, in view of the more reprehensible transgressions of his consins across...
...those in the area were forced to put up their umbrellas to protect themselves from the shower from the occupants of the galleries. Lord Rosebery was received by the audience rising to their feet and cheering lustily for a minute or two. Professor Flint opened the proceedings with prayer. For a minute or two the professor was inaudible, the shouting and disorder continuing unabated. When there was silence to some extent, the various clauses in the prayer were greeted with "Hear, hear," "Oh, oh," and the prayer, "Cause our university to flourish in the future," was received with loud cheers...