Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1879-1879
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...conclusion, I would suggest that Holy Week is a time when all good Episcopalians should be at church, and so the large number of "us Episcopalians" in college should feel obliged to the Faculty for putting the vacation at a time when they can perform their duty as churchmen without cutting recitations...
...obsolete, and interests none of us, whereas Lent is a very real thing in many families. All vacations are certainly intended for enjoyment as well as suspension of studies; therefore, to fix one at a season when a decreased amount of pleasure will be obtained by many others besides churchmen is to neutralize the intention for which it is given. To find fault with giving a vacation after Easter, because Easter is an ecclesiastical institution, and Harvard is an unsectarian college, is almost as absurd as it would be to object to having a vacation at Christmas. Placing a vacation...