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Yesterday morning in Appleton Chapel, in addition to the usual psalm, the "Gloria in Excelsis" was sung to a new chant...
...university, with the exception of Rev. Richard Montague, were in attendance. The wonderful improvement was to be noticed in the music, the choir singing its hymns and anthems in a manner which cannot be too much praised. Rev. Mr. Gordon opened the services by the reading of a psalm; this was followed by the reading of three portions of the New Testament and a prayer by Dr. Mackenzie. Dr. Peabody then ascended the pulpit and began his sermon on the text Joel ii 28: "And it shall come to pass that our old men shall see visions and our young...
Some dissatisfaction was expressed at the speed with which the chapel exercises were got under way yesterday morning. Many students who entered chapel while the bell was still in full swing were surprised to find the assembled classes engaged in returning the closing responses to the psalm, while those who were a trifle more tardy and arrived just after the last peal of the bell had died away were compelled to rush to their seats during the reading of the scriptures...
...prominent junior was heard to ask what was the matter with that psalm that was read in Chapel, yesterday morning. The first chapter of Genesis according to the new revision confused...
...visits is to judge of the effects of the compulsory system upon the students, we have one suggestion to make to the visitors. We have noticed in the strangers who have recently been present at Chapel, that they occupied themselves solely in following the service. They joined in the psalm, listened throughout to the reading from the pulpit, and added their own vocal contribution to the singing of the hymn. Now, if these gentlemen were the visiting overseers, they evidently did not attain the object of their visit, for they were too much taken up with their own devotion...