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 students willing to
engage in the Christian enterprises of the neighborhood are called
into active exercise.
