New York University - Violet Yearbook (New York, NY)

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THE COLLEGE CHAPEL. In the mind of the college man, more pleasant associations and more vivid recollec- tions center about the college chapel than about any other of the rooms in which he has lf learned and forgotten and dozed and tlunked and laughed and shouted and performed . -' i 'Q i E 'xiii . . . Q Iij- Qi 2 . the other functions essential to college hfc. And why should it not be so? Did he i lf, 3 . .E ' not enter this room every day of his course from Freshman year to Senior vear, fexcept Q ' is ' 1: ' i P 1:i:.- ,, . . ' .ga 2 it , Ee: when he cut 5? W'ere not the first audiences that ever listened to, and hooted at 3-ii-15' Z 4' ,eww i Q D' the Hower of his oratory seated upon the time-worn fand knife-wornj benches of this 5 3 1, same room? Did not his soul for the first time truly appreciate the subtleties of har- ' L mony and the divine gifts of St. Cecilia when the tones of that chapel organ first broke in waves of sonorous grandeur upon his offended ear-drums? Yes, brothers of the University, seriously speaking, we have good reason to remember , the old chapel. Vtflien we have read the inscription upon the marble shield that hangs on the ' chapel wall, and then have looked at our Chancellor and our Dean and our instructors, we -1.- Y have felt truly that they are the living inscriptions, known and read of all men, who could i show us better than marble tablets how to attain U the noblest ends. f There are traditions,-alas! little more,-of the splendor of a great chapel which once occupied the central portion of the upper stories of the old University building. The colle' gian of these days knows nothing of its existence, unless by some chance, Qliucleian initia- tion or otherwisey, he mounts to the top of the building and sees the last remnant of the - line ceiling of this old chapel, he is fairly startled by its revelation of what the place of honor used to be in his fathers or grandfathefs day. lt could not have been from a feeling of imprfmpriety,imore probably it was from a laudable desire to economize space,-that the room was subdividedg and the only chapel which the recent student at the University knows aught about is the room represented on the opposite page. lt needs no introduction to most of us, and our last prayer to the council is, that our new chapel may not have benches of the same pattern. 17