Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...religious meetings held in Holden on Sunday evenings for the past few weeks have been so well attended as to attract the attention not only of those directly connected with the university, but of others who know Harvard only by name and reputation. Some papers go so far as to head their reports with, "Revival at Harvard," a heading which hardly corresponds to the state of feeling that exists here, if to "revival" we must give the common newspaper meaning. Still on the part of many members of the college greater interest in matters of a religious character has been...
...York Star of Sunday publishes an account of the Yale crew and its prospects for the coming season. The article, as is customary, prominently presents the inexperience of the eleven candidates...
Next week's calendar is good reading. The Chapel is to be opened once more, and Mr. Studd will speak Sunday evening on "The Recent Religious Revival in the English and Scotch Universities." Monday evening comes Prof. Briggs' Chaucer reading and the Scientific Seminary. But Tuesday will be the great day of the week, with the lecture by Mr. Charles F. Adams on railroading. That the capabilities of Sever 11 will be taxed to the utmost is not to be doubted. So would the capabilities of Sanders for that matter. We have given up asking why these lectures are given...
Probably the most marked change in college discipline has come in the matter of personal direction which was then supposed to take the place of parental discipline. One of the many rules laid down was that every undergraduate must wear a black coat on Sundays. Disobedience to this law incurred nearly the same punishment as drunkenness or any of the other capital crimes. The narrator remembers a circumstance in connection with the rule which is worth repeating. One of his friends, a quiet and studious young man, not knowing the regulation, had provided himself before entering college with a Sunday...
After a short meeting among the students Sunday morning, the delegates attended services at the city churches. In the afternoon Prof. Lincoln, of Brown, gave an address on Christian consecration. The closing exercises were held in the First Baptist Church. Mr. Wishard spoke of the world-wide extent of this Christian work for young men. Reports were then given by delegates of the religious life in their respective colleges. The pastor of the church made a few remarks about the claims of the ministry as a profession. At the close of this meeting the delegates held farewell exercises...