VOLUNTARY PRAYERS AT CORNELL.

President White of Cornell. says "The most devoted Christian men here, as in many other institutions of learning, saw reason to believe that the usual forced attendance upon morning college prayers was of very doubtful utility. To huddle into a cheerless room a great mass of students just hurried from their breakfasts, with minds intent upon the recitation of the next hour, is certainly a very doubtful way of inducting young men into the beauty of holiness."