Education: At Vassar

Last week a thorn was extracted from the side of Vassar's faculty— compulsory chapel. Even as their contemporaries at Yale, Dartmouth, Amherst, Princeton and elsewhere have protested in these late years of undergraduate self-assertion that religion is a personal matter, so the young ladies on their high hill at Poughkeepsie have stoutly insisted that each should be permitted to save her soul in her own way, and that the community spirit expressed by daily and weekly chapel gatherings could be expressed quite as well by academic convocations for lectures and general...

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