Excerpt from Annual Reports President and Treasurer: 1910
One of my first proposals at Wellesley in the autumn of 1899, was to abolish compulsory attendance on morning prayers. The plan was approved only by a small majority of the Faculty, but the Trustees permitted me to make the experiment. With the beautiful new chapel building and every external aid to devotion, I could not bear to have the service perfunctory, with monitors to mark attendance.
Much of what I hoped for has been attained. It is a very real moment of devotion when with the first low note of the organ, a true call to prayer, every head is bowed, and the service begins with silent consecration. The hymn, and psalm which follow, the Scripture lesson and prayer, and the closing recessional, make a brief service to the value of which I have had many touching testimonies.
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