Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...membership roll already has the following names: E. S. Gregory, F. L. Hosmer, F. J. Wing, E. A. Angell, Benjamin C. Starr, A. St. J. Newberry, Walter S. Collins. Herman Stearns, Rev. John Doane, M. E. Wagar, Charles Mitchell, Charles Benton, C. E. Gowan, Otto Mueler, Harry Edwards, C. W. Baker, J. H. McIntosh, George A. Shepard, C. F. Mabery, Howard P. Eells, R. C. Parsons, Jr., N. S. Cableigh, Henry Chisholm. It is expected that the list will be more than doubled in a short time...
...himself. Such a reason seems to all now inadmissable; the good reasons for making prayers compulsory are different now-a-days. It is now the necessity of not keeping away the children of religious parents; the propriety of making the students get up early; the utility of a daily roll-call; or even the satisfaction of seeing the students gathered all in one room. The function of chapel is no longer devotional; neither the college authorities nor the students look at it in that light. There is no feeling in the community that makes public prayer an indispensable form...
There is but one worthy reason why prayers as at present conducted should be opposed; they are not prayers. There is but one thing essential to their being defensible; that they become prayers. If the men who established them had been told - "These prayers will be a mere roll-call, a practice kept up for fear of losing money; the students will not listen; they will not pray; the office of conducting them will go a begging; the singing will be a contrivance; the whole will be an anomaly, a source of ill feeling and disunion," we are constrained...
...never personally gained any good whatever from the service. But what we do mean to say is that we recall no time when the service specially aroused religious impulses. Upper most in our recollection the college prayers stand, not for their religious or moral significance, but as a roll-call." - Cornell...
...last number the Advocate is mistaken in saying that the O. K. petition asks for the compulsory roll-call in the morning. The petition simply suggests that as a measure of discipline a roll-call would be better than prayers...