 Each day of classes began with an optional 50-minute "morning chapel" session, which featured both spiritual and (more often) secular speakers, oftentimes Mayo himself giving a motivational lecture.During its early years, most students came to ETNC with only an eighth-grade education and spent their first full year in the school's preparatory program before entering the "college department" for their second year.All of the college's most popular degrees (B.S., B.