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P. B. H. Officers Make Nineteenth Annual Reports

Average Number at Week-Day Exercises Falls Off Slightly

The report of the Chapel Committee covers the period from July 10, 1922, to April 2, 1923. The work of the committee will be taken up under the heads of Summer School, Morning Chapel and Sunday Services, and Special Services.

Summer School

The following preachers were in attendance at morning services except on Saturday and Sunday from July 10 to August 18:

Reverend K. C. MacArthur, Reverend Kirsopp Lake, Reverend W. H. Powell, Reverend C. M. Gray, Reverend G. L. Paine.

The average attendance for the thirty-one services was eighty-one, as compared with seventy in 1921, sixty in 1920 and forty in 1919.

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Morning Chapel and Sunday Services

During the College year the following preachers conducted the services, the usual term of attendance being one week:

Reverend W. S. Guth of Baltimore, Reverend Samuel McComb of the Episcopal Theological School, Reverend S. M. Crothers of Cambridge, Reverend E. C. Moore of the University Faculty, Reverend H. I. Bell of Anandale-on-the-Hudson, Reverend C. A. Barbour of Rochester, Bishop L. H. Roots of Hankow, China, Reverend H. W. Foote of the Theological School, Dean W. L. Sperry of the Theological School, Bishop C. L. Slattery of Boston, Reverend P. R. Frothingham of Boston, Reverend C. R. Brown of the Yale School of Religion. Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts, Reverend W. W. Fenn of the Theological School, Reverend Endicott Peabody of Groton School, Reverend F. G. Peabody of the University Faculty, Emeritus, Reverend R. C. Smith of Ipswich, Mass., Reverend Samuel Eliot of Boston, Reverend T. G. Soares of Chicago, Reverend C. E. Park of Boston, Bishop F. J. McConnell of Pittsburg, Reverend H. S. Coffin of New York, Bishop C. H. Brent of Buffalo, Reverend H. E. Fosdick of New York Reverend Raymond Calkins of Cambridge, Reverend H. H. Tweedy of the Yale School of Religions, Reverend Karl Reiland of New York, Reverend O. E. Maurer of New Haven, Bishop C. D. Williams of Detroit, Reverend O. S. Davis of Chicago, Reverend G. C. Coulton of Cambridge, England.

Average Attendance Compiled

The average monthly attendance at Morning Chapel this year as compared with the last two years is:   '22-23  '21-22  '20-21 September  123  158  163 October  110  109  102 November  91  92  93 December  59  95  81 January  55  76  73 February  75  63  67 March  71  69  68 Average  83  94  92

From the opening of College to April 2d there were twenty-seven Sunday services held. The following is a comparison of the student attendance at Sunday services during the last five years: 1918-19  118 1919-20  226 1920-21  231 1921-22  248 1922-23  273

These figures are most encouraging.

Special Services

During the opening week of College the following members of the University Faculty conducted morning prayers:

Professor H. H. Burbank, President A. L. Lowell, Professor J. H. Beale, Professor Samuel Williston, Professor James Ford, Professor W. B. Donham.

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