Word: headings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Adds fresher laurels to her honored head...
Students were obliged to exercise themselves in reading the Scriptures twice a day, so as to be ready to give an account of their proficiency whenever their tutors might require it; and all superiors were to be honored like natural parents, by keeping silence and uncovering the head in their presence...
Under the second head are laid down the laws relating to prayers, from which, it appears, that all students, besides being expected to hold private prayers, were obliged to "be present morneing and evening at publick prayers at the accustomed houres; viz: ordinarily at six of the clock in the morneing, from the tenth of March at Sun riseing, and at five of the clock at night all the yeare long...
Absences from prayers and tardinesses without good reason came under the third head, and were subject to the following penalties...
...have spent several leisure hours lately trying to picture to myself some one raising his head from the fathomless sea of Malebranchean ethics (in which he has been kindly permitted to dive for three hours a week and to dabble in as often as he liked), and with a smile repeating Milton's lines...