Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Library Council) has come to the conclusion that, after going to church, a man ought never to play billiards or cards, or drink anything stronger than H2O, enlivened by a little soda-water, alleging that nothing is more detrimental to orthodox principles than having the mind occupied on the Sabbath. So they close the library and close the cafes and close the shops, thus obliging you to seek refuge in some church - or apothecary's (I generally choose the apothecary...
...went to the St. Goar Library, and, thinking a little light reading might enable me to get through the Sabbath without the help of the druggist, I requested (in writing) a certain youthful page to bring me Swinburne's youthful poems, or Bussy-Rabutin, or Severin's Premiere nuit de noces...
...CERTAIN Freshman who has been in the habit of spending the Sabbath in the bosom of his family during the past half-year, has aroused the admiration of his native town by appearing at church with a smoking cap and a cane...
...Courant rejoices over "four new rails in the Sophomore fence, three in Junior, and four in the Senior." Yet all is not joy. The Monday morning lectures of last term have been replaced by recitations. The Record attacks the change on the ground that it encourages Sabbath-breaking in order to prepare the recitation; and the Courant thinks that "the scholastic merits of a lecture are never clearer than after a Sunday's rest, and from such a date it always remains fondly vivid at annuals." We wish that words could induce the Courant to wrap itself in the mantle...
...Trouble is brewing about the Gymnasium. Tenpin ball and Indian club do not get the needed rest upon the Sabbath, and the Gymnasium officers are accused of carelessness...