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...students look at it in that light. There is no feeling in the community that makes public prayer an indispensable form of beginning work; there is no feeling in the students that it is a religious act to attend prayers. Such attendance is a matter of discipline, not of worship; it is a thing people are afraid to stop, not one they are able to defend. The force that keeps prayers up in their present form is inertia. If laziness has some part in the opposition to prayers, laziness has as great a part in the defence of them...
...feeling which makes the expression of the aspirations of all in a single form possible; what alone is sacred to one is wholly unmeaning to his neighbor. To make prayers compulsory, then, would in itself defeat their object, since they could not be for all an occasion of worship...
...higher, and finer things of life. That the so-called daily prayers at Harvard fail in this purpose, is too true. They stimulate few or none toward better actions. The failure, however, is merely because they are not prayers. They are an attempt to unite the worship of God with a police regulation. Such a confusion of acts of devotion with affairs of ordinary college discipline must inevitably destroy in us all feelings of sentiment, and reverence. Under the present system we always have a lurking idea that we are worshipping only the Dean and the Faculty. Thus compulsion takes...
...Seats are provided at the expense of the college for all students who attend the Sunday services of the several religious denominations having established places of worship in the immediate vicinity of the college...
President Seelye says in regard to "compulsory chapel" that "it has done incalculable good for Amherst, and its omission would prove an irreparable loss. A wise person will take advantage of this privilege of chapel worship and a well bred person will refram from all disturbances of the exercise in the slightest...