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...himself. Such a reason seems to all now inadmissable; the good reasons for making prayers compulsory are different now-a-days. It is now the necessity of not keeping away the children of religious parents; the propriety of making the students get up early; the utility of a daily roll-call; or even the satisfaction of seeing the students gathered all in one room. The function of chapel is no longer devotional; neither the college authorities nor the students look at it in that light. There is no feeling in the community that makes public prayer an indispensable form...
...never personally gained any good whatever from the service. But what we do mean to say is that we recall no time when the service specially aroused religious impulses. Upper most in our recollection the college prayers stand, not for their religious or moral significance, but as a roll-call." - Cornell...
...last number the Advocate is mistaken in saying that the O. K. petition asks for the compulsory roll-call in the morning. The petition simply suggests that as a measure of discipline a roll-call would be better than prayers...
Here is Harvard University, with an alumni roll in which the names reach well into the thousands, and most of whose living graduates are resident in Massachusetts, - yet but fourteen of her sons are found in the legislature of the state. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing," and the dangers of incomplete education to-day are shown most clearly in the incompetent legislative acts which we tolerate from force of long habit. Though "the returns . . . . are not encouraging to any Harvard undergraduate," yet we trust that they may at least be stimulating, and that the seed now being sown...
...answers sent in to the chapel petition advocates the substitution of roll-call instead of voluntary chapel...