Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Since the choice of Sunday as the day for the regimental hikes has been criticised, should not a "decent respect to the opinions of mankind" lead us to declare the causes which have led to this choice...
...there started on a public career. Whatever we think of the special tenets of the Lord's Day League, we do not wish as Harvard men to record ourselves as disdainful of the convictions of others, more particularly of their religious convictions. Is it not the fact that Sunday afternoon is the only available time for these essential parts of the training of the regiment; and that many members of the regiment would prefer some other day if it could be found...
...many members of the regiment, and not many citizens of the neighborhoods which the regiment will invade in the course of its Sunday adventures, still hold to the Puritan idea of Sunday in all its ancient rigor. But there are still a great many on both sides who would regret to see the distinction between this day and the rest wiped out, or even to see the American Sunday become indistinguishable from the Continental Sunday. Whether this idea is a prejudice, a sentiment, or a religious principle, it deserves our respect; and we shall not recommend the regiment...
...statute of Massachusetts, not rigidly enforced, as is illustrated by the Sunday attitude of country clubs throughout the state, runs as follows...
Since golf and tennis on Sundays are an habitual form of exercise and recreation at all country clubs of importance near Boston, it seems inconsistent that the University courts should be closed on this day. It is highly improbable that an appreciable number of students object to Sunday tennis on the grounds of moral principle. But the creation of a disturbance to the people who live near the courts might be a serious criticism. Though Jarvis Field is so situated that tennis on its courts might demoralize the Sunday atmosphere in the residential section adjoining, Soldiers Field may be considered...