Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...President Dunster's day, the "Rules and Precepts that are observed in the Colledge" required that "Every schollar shall be present in his Tutor's chamber at the 7th houre in the morning, immediately after the sound of the Bell, at his opening the Scripture and prayer, so also at the 5th houre at night, and then give an account of his own private reading." The daily services in the Hall were conducted by the President. In the morning the undergraduates were required to read in the Old Testament from the Hebrew into Greek, excepting the Freshmen, who were allowed...
...Morning prayers at this time were held at six o'clock and attendance upon them was enforced by requiring the payment of money for any delinquency. Immediately after prayers the students proceeded to their recitations before breakfast, which was served at half-past seven o'clock. This order of exercises was justified on the ground that it was important that the undergraduates should not only be roused from their beds, but called to some intellectual exertion at an early hour; and that a recitation immediately after rising in the morning was the best security for the proper employment...
...funeral of the late Professor Dunbar was held at one o'clock yesterday in Appleton Chapel. The Rev. E. H. Hall read the Unitarian burial service, the Rev. Samuel M. Crothers offered an impressive prayer, and Mr. Hall gave the benediction. During the service the College choir sang "Integer Vitae," and "God of the Living, in Whose Eyes," and E. H. Waterhouse sang "They are in Peace," by Foster. The funeral was largely attended by the friends and associates of the late professor of economics. The interment took place at Forest Hills...
...annual day of prayer for colleges was observed in Boston by a meeting yesterday of workers in the various college societies. Reports were read showing what the colleges and universities in New England are doing in religious work. Professor F.G. Peabody '69 stated that a renewed religious activity has been manifest at Harvard since the establishment of the Phillips Brooks House. Mr. Henry D. Wright of Yale, reported that sixty five per cent of the total enrolment of Yale University are church members, and from Williams College it was reported that out of 378 students sixty per cent are active...
Phillips Brooks was essentially human in his character. He was easily provoked to righteous anger; but at the bottom of his character there was an infinite sweetness. It was in the great prayer in July, 1865, in commemoration and thanksgiving for those Harvard men, who had taken part in the war, that Phillips Brooks revealed himself to Harvard graduates. It was through him that freedom and liberalness of religion was established at Harvard. Prayer was his great power. Through prayer addressed solely to the Almighty he reached human hearts...