Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...REPORT of the recent Athletic meeting was published in the Boston Herald last Sunday, containing such abusive and improper language that it is to be hoped that Herald reporters will in future be excluded from any proceedings of the kind which may occur in college...
...every exercise. The longest editorial in the paper is directed against the heinous sin of Sabbath-breaking, which appears to be startlingly prevalent in New Haven. It appears that the students at first fell from grace by yielding to the temptation to rest on Saturday and to study on Sunday. The "conscience, stretched by this relaxation," soon permitted others, and "whist, poker, and Sunday-evening visits to Temple Street" - whatever that may mean - soon became common. These sins, horrible as they were, affected only the sinners, but at length, hardened by their vicious habits into a callous disregard...
...tone of the Courant, too, is far more pacific than usual. A correspondent of this paper is much shocked because the "President's Sunday-evening prayer-meetings" are poorly attended. It seems that Dr. Porter recently invited some "prominent gentlemen" to address an audience of "cultivated young Christian gentlemen." When the time came, only thirty-six cultivated young Christian gentlemen appeared, and to cap the climax they sang out of tune, - to the great disgust of the "prominent gentlemen." The correspondent of the Courant expresses a wish that "prominent men" - which seems to mean students as distinguished from gentlemen - would...
...SUNDAY morning chapel has been abolished at Williams, and in consequence the Athenaeum is very jubilant...
EVEN as the piously benevolent used to take Sunday schools to the panorama of Palestine, so has the Faculty of Yale directed the Senior Class to attend a matinee at Booth's Theatre. The Courant rightly thinks that this is very appropriate; and it is indeed provoking to have their motives misconstrued, as has been done by the New York World, which wickedly insinuates that it was done as an advertisement, to attract to Yale those youths who are inclined to fun. We sympathize with the Courant, and if short of invective after its consignments to the Advocate and World...