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'''Compulsory chapel''' is a phrase used in reference to a college or prep school, that students attend religious services regularly as a condition of their enrollment.  

'''Compulsory chapel''' is a phrase used in reference to a college or prep school. It refers to a requirement that students attend religious services regularly, as a condition of their continued enrollment.  

Most of the famous older colleges and prep schools in the United States originated as Protestant institutions. They were modelled on British universities like Oxford and Cambridge, and the British "public schools" like Eton and Harrow, all of which were essentially insitutions of the Church of England. Six of the eight schools of the Ivy League—[[Harvard University|Harvard]], [[Yale University|Yale]], [[Princeton University|Princeton]], [[Columbia University|Columbia]], and [[Dartmouth College|Dartmouth]] were unquestionably Protestant in nature. Through the middle of the 1800s, compulsory chapel was a given at most of these schools, as it was at the service academies ([[United States Military Academy at West Point|West Point]] and [[United States Naval Academy|Annapolis]]).  

Most of the famous older colleges and prep schools in the United States originated as Protestant institutions. They were modelled on British universities like Oxford and Cambridge, and the British "public schools" like Eton and Harrow, all of which were essentially insitutions of the Church of England. Six of the eight schools of the Ivy League—[[Harvard University|Harvard]], [[Yale University|Yale]], [[Princeton University|Princeton]], [[Columbia University|Columbia]], and [[Dartmouth College|Dartmouth]] were unquestionably Protestant in nature. Through the middle of the 1800s, compulsory chapel was a given at most of these schools, as it was at the service academies ([[United States Military Academy at West Point|West Point]] and [[United States Naval Academy|Annapolis]]).