Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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First, the domain of the newsboy is restricted to an anteroom at Memorial. Next the Senior Class abolish the holy office of chaplain. Now there are whispers that the exercises at the tree on Class Day are a boyish high-school sort of performance, not untainted with rowdyism, and there are students ready to assert that an exercise which shows us up more in the light of clowns than gentlemen might better be dispensed with...
...Chaplain...
...Senior Class assemble in front of Holworthy Hall and march to the Chapel for prayer by the Chaplain...
...full inheritance of the legacy of our Alma Mater; yet it is suggested to us, not indeed to be ungrateful, but to crowd it back into our hearts, unacknowledged and unexpressed. I do not wish to be guilty of sophism. The article named rather attacks the office of our Chaplain as a mockery of a sacred duty. But such it is not. Though some may laugh, shall we, through fear of them, hesitate to express our thanks openly to the Almighty for the rich gifts of our Alma Mater? Does the fervency and success of our Chaplain's prayer suffer...
There is another consideration in the person of the Chaplain. Many of us, most of us, feel a respect we should like to express for some substantial, steadfast character we have admired through college. We choose an Orator whose skill will express our acquirements to our friends and fellows. We choose a Chaplain to express our sentiments and freshness of heart. A wrong selection (as has once or twice occurred) does not dishonor the office, but the class. He stands as their prayer to heaven, - if it be a curse, they must bear it; if a blessing, they must receive...