Word: pray
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...though not on the readings; and that the undergraduates attend both prayers and readings; but they attend in greater numbers at prayers when there are no readings. Some years afterwards it was ordered that when the President could not attend prayers, one of the Tutors or the Librarian should pray and also read some portion of Scripture, they taking their turns by course weekly; and that whenever they should do so for any considerable time, they should be suitably rewarded for their services...
...alleged,' he says, 'that the prayers are made by the professors in Theology, and may pervert the minds of the pupils. Surely no one in New England can contend that so large a family should not have any morning and evening prayers. It is true that the Theological Professors pray; but who else should pray? And, after all, what is the objection to their prayers? It is expressly admitted that the prayers will contain no matter of controversy, nothing to startle the most timid conscience. But then they will omit some peculiar doctrines. The objection is, not that they contain...
...article of the Christian creed; but since the publication of certain rather remarkable views among us, it is necessary to consider those who do not accept this fundamental assertion; but these can certainly not think it honorable to feign a belief in such superstition by electing a man to pray for them. Very different opinions from those expressed are, I know, held by my friends. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the best construction will be put on the foregoing, and it will be understood that the only purpose is to warn men lest we leave college with...
Assembled to praise and pray...
...college in the country; the work of the Harvard Sophomore year being performed in their Freshman, that of the Junior in their Sophomore, while "during the Senior year the range of work performed here and at Harvard and Yale is too immeasurably great to allow of comparison." With what, pray? Perhaps, however, the editor of the Times did not think it worth his while to take advantage of these extraordinary opportunities...