Word: psalm
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...suggested that the number of the prayer be posted in chapel with those of the psalm and hymn...
...public to listen to such accounts as this of the rowdyism of English and Scotch students. Pelting professors with peas and rushing them through a melee is certainly not characteristic of American students, neither is uproarious applause of a prayer nor interrupting academical ceremonies with cat-calls and mock psalm tunes. The American student does not wish to be pharisaical, but he humbly pleads for a milder judgment upon his harmless peccadilloes, in view of the more reprehensible transgressions of his consins across...
...Lord Rosebery's opening address at the Edinburgh University on Saturday afternoon was preceded by some very disorderly scenes. The students assembled at the Synod Hall in large numbers and behaved in a very noisy manner, throwing peas and beans, shouting, stamping and singing alternately snatches of songs and psalm tunes. A miniature pasteboard chair, placarded "The Celtic Chair," was suspended in the centre of the hall by a string stretching between the two side galleries, and proved the source of much disorder and amusement. Theatrical and circus bills were displayed from the front of the north gallery...
...conclusion of the responsive reading in chapel a few morning since a senior, whose prayer cuts have been used up was heard to remark, "I wish I were David the son of Jesse." The last verse of the psalm was. "The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended...
...about a month during the current year. After some experiments the two ministers, members of the board of overseers - Rev. Drs. Edward E. Hale and Phillips Brooks - who conducted prayers during October and November, settled upon an interesting order of service, in which the daily responsive reading of a psalm was introduced...