In another column we give an account of the Overseers' meeting yesterday. It will be remembered that lately a committee was appointed to consider the religious interests of the college, and to make a report which should include the subject of chapel attendance. At the session yesterday, only a part of the report was presented, - a recommendation that the Plummer Professorship of Christian morals be filled at once. As is well known, this chair has been vacant since the resignation of Dr. Peabody a few years ago; and as the religious services of the university having no one whose special business it was to look after them, have been somewhat irregular. It is to be hoped that filling this chair will deepen the religious feeling among the students at large, by giving more consistency and coherence to our services. Then too a man like Dr. Peabody, as has been seen, could, in his position, exercise a very strong and beneficial influence over the students. So we are glad to learn of this first step of our Overseers; and trust that the next thing will be the granting of our petition.
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