Excerpt from Supreme Things

Through the gracious courtesy of eight universities of the United States, I have been permitted during the last few months to address their students. The occasions have varied in their type of formality, but in every instance the welcome granted me has been most generous and the opportunity afforded me both by faculty and students has been most encouraging.

Each university has distinctive features in its welcome to the visiting minister. Harvard, by official act of the President and Fellows, confirmed by the Board of Overseers, appoints each year five "Preachers to the University, " each of whom has full charge of the religious services for four weeks, preaching on Sunday at Appleton Chapel, and conducting prayers on each week day morning in the same chapel. Two of these weeks are in the first half of the year, and the other two in the second half. The University preacher during these four weeks is in residence at Wadsworth House, where he receives the students who come to talk with him concerning the interests of their lives.

Yale usually invites the preacher for a single Sunday, or in some cases he comes for two Sundays. The President accompanies him to Battell Chapel, sits with him in the pulpit, states the announcements and introduces him to the congregation.

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