Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...various sumptuary laws were proclaimed regulating to the minutest detail every man's apparel--Sometimes prescribing on what public occasions nightgowns should be worn, and sometimes forbidding them altogether, as in 1822: "A night-gown of cotton, or fabric, or silk fabric may be worn....except on the Sabbath or occasions when undress would be improper." Finally, in 1870, the size of the college and the students growing spirit of independence caused these laws to be abolished. From then on, it was a custom for Seniors to appear at Class Day and Commencement in evening dress and silk hats...
...avert accusations of heresy or originality permit me to add that my source-book is a very conservative and churchmanly volume, to wit, the well-known Bible--which attributes to divine command "so crassly materialistic" our exercise of the state's police power as the institution of the Sabbath and "so brazenly political" a measure as the repropriation of citizen farmers every half century. And as to the separation of powers between Caesar and God, I have the authority of some eminent residents of Divinity Hall for no longer taking that injunction literally...
...Henry L. Higginson comes resolutely into the General Court with another petition dealing with the question of Sunday baseball. This time it is desired to legalize the playing of the game by soldiers and sailors who may enjoy turning to this healthy pastime during the odd hours on the Sabbath. The natural wisdom of providing these men with any and all sensibly planned opportunities for recreation, it is to be hoped will so appeal to the General Court that the legislature will not only admit the petition, upon the recommendation given by the Committee on Rules, but also press...
...righteous the next thing to uncleanliness, and far worse than fratricide. Unending generations of college men have striven for ways whereby the boathouses, the tennis courts, and the athletic fields might be opened. And for all their striving, there is perhaps as much relaxation around Harvard Square on the Sabbath as there was in the time of John Harvard. Surely not more, for then they had the Indians...
...well enough to talk about the sanctity of the Sabbath. But youth will be served. And men who may not find recreation around Cambridge will seek it outside, at the beaches and amusement parks, where religion is not especially fostered. It is not a question of observing the Sabbath according to the strict letter, or of neglecting it in tennis and rowing. It is a question of neglecting it in tennis and rowing, or of contemning it in less natural amusements...