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DISCIPLINE.

Morality and Religion are recognized as the foundation and indispensable
concomitants of education. The discipline of the University is
seduously administered with a view to confirm integrity and to maintain
a sacred regard for truth. Great efforts are made to surround the students
with religious influences; but experience has proved that the best
way to effect this result is to forbear the employment of coercion; the
attendance on religious exercises is therefore entirely voluntary. Prayers
are held every morning in the chapel, and divine service is performed
twice on Sunday by a chaplain, selected in turn from the principal religious
denominations.