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Title: Memories of Yale life and men, 1854-1899
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Dwight, Timothy, 1828-1916
Subjects: Yale University
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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after prayers, and the breakfasthour followed this. I have spoken of the Old Chapelas dreary—taking the standpoint of the student of to-day. On a winters morning, when we had been rousedfrom the sweet slumber of boyhood by the sharp tonesof the college bell or the sharper ring of the alarm-clockin our rooms, and had made our way at six oclock, per-chance through a heavy snowstorm, to the Chapel doors,it seemed dreary even to our less luxurious tastes, andto our eyes less accustomed to the beauty of architecture.The Seniors, Indeed, were there; or some of them,for, as they had no early morning recitation in thatyear, and as the kindly President was lenient in thematter of excuses, they indulged themselves in absencesto a considerable extent. The Seniors were there; andI may say on their behalf that, though I have seen morethan fifty classes since that time, I have never lookedupon so impressive and dignified a body of men as theythen seemed to me to be. The tutors were there also, 18
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CO •*» O ^ 1-1 s 5^ MEMORIES OF YALE LIFE AND MEN all of them, and the venerable President likewise. Howvenerable he looked—almost as if his namesake Jere-miah, the Prophet of the Old Testament, had returnedto earth to offer his prayer and give his benediction inpaternal love for the young students of the present. Butit was more than the Seniors, or the tutors, or the Presi-dent himself could do, to make the building seem cheer-ful, or attractive, or even solemn, unless with the solemn-ity of a winter wilderness. There was no organ in thebuilding, and, at the morning service, no singing. Oneof the tutors read a passage from the Scriptures, andthe President offered prayer. The Freshmen had theirseats assigned them in the pews in the rear of the Seniorsand Juniors—the Seniors occupying the front portion ofthe middle aisle, and the Juniors one of the side aisles.Immediately upon the close of the service, the Freshmenwere expected to leave the building, without waiting forany of th

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