Word: lent
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have his better blessing, lent...
ONLY fourteen men have taken advantage of the privilege of attending morning prayers at St. John's Chapel during Lent, instead of at the College Chapel...
...leaving their names at the office, all who wish to do so may attend morning prayers at St. John's during Lent, instead of at the Chapel. The service begins at 8 o'clock...
...request that the Spring Recess shall be postponed until after Lent is made early enough this year for the authorities to take action upon it. There is no conceivable reason for having it in Lent, except that it may include Fast Day; but the observance of Fast Day is completely 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...
...weather and Lent together seem to have cast a gloom upon the minds of college editors in general. At least this is the most plausible excuse we are at present able to find for the lack of original material in any one of our exchanges. People of the new generation have introduced the new self-denial, - that of the fast of intellect; and were it not for events, which no one can control, and each other's business, which every one would like to control, there would not be much to remark...