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DISCIPLINE AND RELIGIOUS WORSHIP.

Morality and Religion are recognized as the foundation and indispensable concomitants
of education. The discipline of the University 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 having proved that it is best

to forbear the employment of coercion, the attendance on religious exercises is entirely voluntary.
Prayers are held every morning in the Chapel, and divine service is conducted
twice on Sunday by a Chaplain, selected in turn from the principal religious denominations.