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.
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: 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: 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. Read more in News