Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the vacationists arrived in Colorado Springs they found desks and telephones installed in the high-school gymnasium. Before bedtime Sunday night the gym had been converted into a business office. Coryell workers and their families then retired to houses or apartments rented for them by the company. Bright & early Monday morning work began...
...their business dealings the Coryells are shrewd, firm and virtually indistinguishable, father from son. Toward their employes they show a rather juicy paternalism. Six years ago Father Coryell instituted Monday morning chapel service for office workers whom he suspected of not going to Church on Sunday. A rumor denied by the Coryells is that there were penalties for nonattendance. Another exaggeration is that the office girls are fined if they go to the lavatory more often than once in the morning, once after lunch. Coryell service station men are encouraged to be proud of their bright orange uniforms...
...fraternal insurance society, the V.A.S. (Vera Amicitia Sempiterna Est or "True Friendship is Eternal") of which he was Chief Rector, started a similar one which would know no bounds. He had fun preparing a ritual but was stumped for a name for his new order. Then in church one Sunday he heard a minister use the simile of woodmen clearing away the forest near their homes for safety's sake. Promptly Founder Root chose the name Modern Woodmen of America. Local lodges were called Camps, members Neighbors. A beetle, ax and wedge were chosen as symbols. Original membership...
...layman's address on Baccalaureate Sunday is by custom designated a sormen. Perhaps I may be permitted, therefore, to sum up all I have to say in advance by quoting the famous text from St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans...
...reception by President Lowell--Out of town President and Mrs. Lowell unable to hold usual reception for students Sunday...