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...liberalization came when forced evening services were abolished. Twenty years later followed the abolition of the required Sunday afternoon chapel service. This was at the same time that a layman--Woodrow Wilson--was elected president of the university...
...undergraduates, the biggest change came three years later when Princeton did away with daily morning prayers. Thereafter the student had to attend chapel only twice each week...
...metropolitan newspapers splashed across their front pages a story headlined, "Chapel Strike at Princeton." Undergraduates denied this; they claimed a "lengthy attack of bronchitis during an over-lengthy prayer by the university preacher...
This led to the next change. While the trustees abolished the weekday requirement, they continued the Sunday morning chapel. Then in 1934, following a disturbance among undergraduates during services, the Princetonian charged that students never listened to any of the sermons anyway. Besides, the acoustics in the chapel were so poor they couldn't hear if they wanted...
There things stood until recently when the university took steps to liberalize chapel requirements further. And from this effort came the present requirements of attendance at half the sermons...