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...business book may appear within the next few years under the title The Gospel According to St. Mace. And believers of the new Word, whether they attend lunch hour worship at the church on the corner of Broadway and Wall Street, or a baccalaureate service at a university chapel, need have only the grace of competency...
...Harvard, religion has in recent years caused some disturbance at Mount Holyoke. A good deal of student opposition to the former church and chapel requirements brought a change in policy by the Board of Trustees. A statement released by the Board this fall stated that "Mount Holyoke College is a private institution, unaffiliated with any church. It is non-denominational in its admission policy and in selecting its faculty. It welcomes students and teachers of all faiths. But it follows a long tradition, based on New England Protestantism, of counting exposure to the spiritual and ethical values of religion...
According to the trustees' release, "The College conducts its own Sunday services. Held in a beautiful Chapel and accompanied by inspiring music chosen from many liturgies, they bring to the College a procession of distinguished visiting preachers of different faiths and denominations. The order of service is generally in the Protestant tradition, but rabbis and others occasionally officiate...
...church services," the trustees' statement continues, "the College conducts a number of assemblies. Generally they consist of: The Gathering of the College, a secular student assembly held on Tuesday mornings, conducted by the President of the College; College lectures, on Wednesday evening, with addresses by visiting speakers; (and) College chapel services, religious in character, on Thursday mornings, arranged by the Dean of the College Chapel and the Fellowship of Faiths...
...average attendance of three assemblies every two weeks, and although most of the girls accept this requirement unbegrudgingly, to some it represents an inconvenience. Thus, with its latest change in religious requirements. Mount Holyoke shows signs of joining several other colleges in the move to a more liberal chapel-attendance policy...