Word: worship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...views of Dean Gay and those who follow him. For six days, religion will cast off the cloth and wear, so to speak, the common business suit. In this garb it may well make a deep appeal to some who have considered creeds as things apart from themselves, and worship as a detached something which may hover around everyday life but which never has much to do with...
...with out reference to any denominational preference. The Andover Theological Seminary prepares men for the Congregational ministry; the Episcopal Theological School, for the Episcopal ministry. These are necessary functions, for each of these religious communities has its own point of view, its own way of conducting its work and worship, and its own message. The affiliation of the three schools with the University carries with it a new co-operation of the schools one with another...
...held by each class in its tutor's room; afterwards all students came together in Commons Hall or the library, and later an apartment in the old Harvard Hall was used as a chapel. In 1744 Holden Chapel was built and for two years served as a place of worship, until the new Harvard Hall was erected. The latter continued to be used for devotional exercises until University Hall was built in 1814. Here divine service was performed for 44 years, until 1858, when Appleton Chapel was erected, which has been the College Chapel to the present time...
Morning prayers at this time were held at 6 o'clock and attendance upon them was enforced by requiring the payment of money for any delinquency. "If a student went to the place of public worship before the ringing of the second bell, he was fined not exceeding one shilling; if he was guilty of disorderly conduct immediately after or before prayers, or of irreverance during the service, he was fined a sum not exceeding five shillings, and if he walked on the common or the streets or fields of the town of Cambridge on the Lord...
...attention to the fact that the attendance, especially at Sunday chapel, varies directly with the degree of estimation which the students have for the preacher of the day. Most students will not, or, at least, do not, come to chapel unless attracted by something more than a desire for worship. Much less attention is paid to the weather than...