The following is from the Nation of April 16:
"The Board of Overseers of Harvard College have followed the decisive example of the Corporation, and voted that it is inexpedient not to compel attendance at morning prayers. The report which was adopted was drawn up by the Rev. Dr. Peabody, who for many years officiated at the college chapel. He had, we believe, as a colleague on the special committee, the Rev. Phillips Brooks, who now occasionally performs the service asked to be made voluntary. There was a manifest impropriety in putting any clergyman on such a committee, much more two who may fairly be called interested parties. The petition of the undergraduates was the largest ever known, and the college faculty is notoriously strongly in favor of making prayers 'elective.' The incident is one more evidence of the growing antagonism between the overseers and the faculty, the only natural governing power in the university."
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