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MORALITY AND RELIGION.

These are recognized as the foundation and indispensable concomitants
of education. The discipline is sedulously 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 to
enforce attendance on religious exercises, which is entirely voluntary.
Prayers are held every morning in the Chapel, and divine
service is performed on Sunday by a Chaplain, selected, in turn,
from the principal religious denominations. By means of a
Young Men's Christian Association, new comers are shielded, as
much as possible, from vicious connections, and the energies of
those willing to engage in the Christian enterprises of the neighborhood
are called into active exercise.