THE religious side of our college life, or at least that part of it which concerns itself with Appleton Chapel, is apt to receive too little attention from college men, partly through indifference real or feigned and partly through a false and perhaps unmanly feeling that the services, especially morning prayers, are a part of college life unimportant and not worth attendance. The average college man recognizes morning prayers as an institution which must be, but which he thinks have no place in his every day life, and that the time spent in attending them would be but a waste on his part. It may perhaps be too strong to apply this to college men in general, or to assert that they think attendance at prayers unmanly; but it is true that the average undergraduate is lamentably indifferent in this respect. Yet there must be the recognition that the few words spoken by the college preacher each morning are, by their directness and perspicuity, especially adaptable to the work of every day life, and that while they appeal to the moral they also appeal to the intellectual and practical side of life. So indifference in this matter should be cast aside, and, recognizing the importance and influence of these services and the benefit they can bring to every man, they should be given earnest and hearty support.
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