Word: christian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION...
...vote was passed by the President and Fellows "that five preachers to the University be annually appointed by the president and Fellows with the concurrence of the Board of Overseers, who, in conjunction with the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, shall arrange and conduct the religious services of the University." The Board of Overseers concurred in this vote on May 12, 1886, and in 1892 it was incorporated in the Statutes of the University. On June 14, 1886 on the unanimous recommendation of the Preachers and the Plummer Professor, the President and Fellows voted: "That the statute numbered 15, concerning...
Under this voluntary system religion is now regarded in the University, not as a part of College discipline and compulsion, but as a privilege and opportunity. The Preachers of the University represent various Christian communions and various parts of the country. Each member of the staff conducts daily morning prayer for a term of three weeks in the first half-year, and a second term of three weeks in the second half-year, and each preacher on four Sunday evenings. The Preacher conducting morning prayers is in attendance for some hours every morning, during his term of duty...
...purpose of this association is to unite such students of the University as are connected with Evangelic Churches into Christian fellowship and Christian service. Half-hour devotional meetings are held every Thursday evening at 6.45, at the rooms of the association in Holden Chapel, and to these meetings all members of the University are invited. Mission work is arranged by the association and delegations are sent each week to four established missions in Boston, and on every Sunday morning to a service among the sailors in the Boston docks. The association issues at the beginning of each year a handbook...
...given in the Constitution are as follows: "To bring the Episcopal students of the University into acquaintance with each other; to afford them opportunities of uniting in worship agreeably to the spirit and forms of their church, of giving each other counsel and suport in the performance of Christian duties, and of undertaking missionary work, and by maintaining a Library to give them convenient access to religious literature. Any member of the University who has been baptized and who attends the Protestant Episcopal Church shall be eligible for membership...