. History of the University of Michigan . SgS, p. 16. ch,ip. xni] HISrORT OF THE UNIVERSITY 159 (jf the University could have been more eftcc-tuall)- defended than it has been. At the same time, the Universit)- has sharedin the unmistakable movement of the lastfifty years. The ecclesiastical habit of mindhas to a great extent given way to the scien-tific spirit; the institutions and functions ofthe state have become more secular ; even thedenominational schools have not prescrvetltheir ancient character, some of the mostprominent of them, in fact, dcn\ing it; clcrg)- upon chapel and church, an
. History of the University of Michigan . SgS, p. 16. ch,ip. xni] HISrORT OF THE UNIVERSITY 159 (jf the University could have been more eftcc-tuall)- defended than it has been. At the same time, the Universit)- has sharedin the unmistakable movement of the lastfifty years. The ecclesiastical habit of mindhas to a great extent given way to the scien-tific spirit; the institutions and functions ofthe state have become more secular ; even thedenominational schools have not prescrvetltheir ancient character, some of the mostprominent of them, in fact, dcn\ing it; clcrg)- upon chapel and church, and the exemptiontended to weaken the hold of these observ-ances upon others. As late as 1871, however,the rule still stood in the catalogue: Theundergraduate students are required to attendpravers daily in the College Chapel, and publicworship on the Sabbath at anv one of thechurches in the Citv of Ann Arbor which the\or their parents or guardians may next year this rule disappeared, andattendance upon prayers and church became. ■ FDR rui. ;XAL RF.(;i,XTS FIELD, IHF X(JkrHWEST men are less numerous relatively in Facultiesand on Boards of Control, while the profes-sorial function has been specialized. Thenthe American College is much less a seminaryfor preparing ministers of religion and farmore a school of secular learning than it waseven a half century ago. With all the rest, theCollege regimen, especially in the great insti-tutions, has changed; the rules that werecheerfully obeyed by the students of the oldinstitutions would produce an instant re\oltif an effort were made to enforce them to-da}\Still more, at Ann Arbor the professionalschools have done much to break down theregimen and spirit that were first the first, the students attending themwere exempted from compulsory attendance wholl} voluntar), in both law and fact, as in-deed attendance upon church had long been infact. Daily prayers were, however, maintained,with a relat
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