Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This excerpt from the diary of that old Puritan, Samuel Sewall, shows how completely the order of the English Parliament in 1644 put an end to merry Christmas. All the hoary customs were forced to hide their faces for very shame, and none of them dared to reappear, except on Merrymount, until dour Cromwell was succeeded by the lively Charles. Then one by one they came back until in 1719 Sewall mournfully writes "New England men came hither to avoid anniversary days, the keeping of them, such as the twenty-fifth of December...
...Department of Physical Education has announced that the following buildings will be open daily, except Sundays, Christmas day and New Year's day, during the Christmas recess: the Hemenway gymnasium and the University squash courts, from 9 A. M. to 6 o'clock in the afternoon, also from 2.30 till 6 o'clock on Sundays, and the Freshman gymnasium and the Big Tree swimming pool from 1.30 until 6 o'clock...
...Union Library will be open as usual from 2 o'clock to 11 o'clock except on Christmas...
...Social Ethics Library in Emerson Hall will be open from 9.30 A. M. to 1 P. M., and from 2 P. M. to 4 P. M. every day except Saturday, December 30, Christmas day, and New Year...
...Except as noted above no students will be excused from any of their College appointments...