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...Williams chapel is held twice a day - morning and evening, except Wednesday and Saturday evenings, Sunday morning being regular church service. "If a student's unexcused absence from college prayers exceed ten in any one term he shall be admonished, or otherwise dealt with at the discretion of the faculty." "No excuse for absence from Sunday service shall be accepted, unless, when possible, rendered to a member of the faculty previous to the absence." Morning chapel is at 8.50 in the winter, at 7.50 in the summer. Evening chapel is at 5.30 in the winter, at 6 in the summer...
...train time causes them to be behind chapel time. Almost any reasonable excuse is allowed, but an excessive absence is not allowed. The unexcused absences carry certain demerits. Chapel exercise is regarded as one of the regular college exercises, and is marked as such. Compulsory Sunday attendance at church is a mere farce. A great number of students have never signified what church they attended, nor, indeed, if they attended church at all. As Brown has no college church, it is next to an impossibility to enforce such a rule...
...compulsory church system at Amherst consists of attendance at chapel at 8 A. M. every day in the week, except Sunday, and at two church services on the Sabbath. In addition to these required exercises, class prayer meetings are held Sunday evening, and a general college meeting Thursday evening, at which from one-third to one-half of the students are present. The new system allows the student to cut one-tenth of the required exercises, e. g., seven out of the seventy chapel exercises this term, without rendering an excuse. The trustees and faculty are practically unanimous in supporting...
Great dissatisfaction is felt with a recent rule by which only communicants are ever allowed to substitute attendance on a Poughkeepsie church for Sunday morning chapel, and then only on the communion Sundays of their respective denominations. Until 1876 students whose parents preferred them to attend church in town were allowed to do so regularly. From 1876 to 1882 students could easily obtain permission to do so at irregular intervals. Now no such permission is granted. The only reason given for this is that "the president likes to have the chapel filled up." This restriction, which forces girls of every...
...religious census of Amherst College, just taken by Dr. Hitchcock, shows a total church membership of 230 students in the following ratio: Seniors, 70 per cent.; juniors, 70; sophomores, 63; freshmen, 55; average, 65. The denominations most largely represented are: Congregational, 158; Presbyterian, 30; Episcopalian and Methodist, seven each, the remainder being divided among the Baptist, Lutheran, Dutch Reformed, Catholic and others...