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.
