Word: sunday
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...students who do not obtain permission to spend Sundays regularly with their family or friends are required to attend church in the forenoon of every Sunday of the Academic year...
...student who does not regularly pass Sunday with his family or friends may so pass Sunday six times in a year, provided he gives notice of each absence in writing to the Registrar, accompanied by a certificate of attendance at church when he has passed Sunday elsewhere than with his family...
...again, suppose he comes from a distance, but has friends in neighboring towns. They might be very glad to have him pass Sunday with them occasionally, but what one of them would be willing to entertain him every Sunday for thirty-eight weeks? Yet this is the only way in which he may visit them. I cannot conceive of a more absurd regulation. What possible harm can there be in a man's spending his Sundays where he pleases, so long as his family is satisfied...
...Faculty would only economize a little more, and have examinations evenings, and on Sunday, the Semiannuals might be cut down to six days...
Williams.- Sunday walks have been forbidden...