Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yesterday was the first pleasant Sunday...
...Lyon preaches in the college chapel next Sunday evening...
...Williams chapel is held twice a day - morning and evening, except Wednesday and Saturday evenings, Sunday morning being regular church service. "If a student's unexcused absence from college prayers exceed ten in any one term he shall be admonished, or otherwise dealt with at the discretion of the faculty." "No excuse for absence from Sunday service shall be accepted, unless, when possible, rendered to a member of the faculty previous to the absence." Morning chapel is at 8.50 in the winter, at 7.50 in the summer. Evening chapel is at 5.30 in the winter, at 6 in the summer...
Great dissatisfaction is felt with a recent rule by which only communicants are ever allowed to substitute attendance on a Poughkeepsie church for Sunday morning chapel, and then only on the communion Sundays of their respective denominations. Until 1876 students whose parents preferred them to attend church in town were allowed to do so regularly. From 1876 to 1882 students could easily obtain permission to do so at irregular intervals. Now no such permission is granted. The only reason given for this is that "the president likes to have the chapel filled up." This restriction, which forces girls of every...
...dispatch from Hanover, N. H., says: The suspended sophomores still refuse to tell the faculty where they were on the night of the 17th. The faculty remain firm. Early on Sunday morning the village was aroused by a tremendous explosion. Some hurried to the bank, but found everything right there. An explanation was furnished when daylight came. A large cannon which the students had drawn from West Lebanon, a distance of four miles, during the night, was standing near Reed Hall. On Sunday evening it was taken home by the authorities, but before morning found its way here again...