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Whether it is due to class fellowship, compulsory chapel, or, most likely, to early indoctrination into the tradition, Princeton functions with efficiency and mutual trust under the honor system. Princetonians are proud of the success of the system in examinations...
Upon admission to the college, the freshman is faced not only with the prohibitive list of "Thou shalt nots" but one important "Thou shalt." Every other week, the underclassman must rouse himself for church services. Compulsory chapel is one leg of what Dodds calls "a three-legged stool of religion." The Student Christian Association and the College's own Department of Religion are the other two braces of Princetonian program. A student can contract out of the compulsory chapel only by going to the Dean and saying that he is satisfied by no religious belief and cannot in conscience attend...
...reasons for compulsory chapel, in addition to the feeling that religion is an important part of humanistic teachings, is the class unity it builds. Officials have different reasons for stressing solidarity among members of each class. Dodds sees the bond as a substitute for Harvard's House system which draws undergraduates together...
...small cells and a tiny kitchen. All day long, they labor in the graveyard, clearing paths, repairing crumbling headstones, replacing rusty iron crosses and digging graves, an average of one a day. Each day they rise at 2 a.m. to walk in meditation through the cemetery to the tiny chapel, where they pray until...
Last week, after seeing his old boss off to his train, President McCann was percolating plans as hard as ever ("I can dream, can't I?). Among his dreams: a new office building, a chapel, a field house, two dormitories, a $1,000,000 endowment, at least 300 students...