Word: trend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...trend of American custom, observable at Harvard as in every other community, is away from the old Puritan strictness. Sooner or later we shall reach the point where any reasonable means of exercise or recreation that is permissible on week-days will not be thought out of place on Sunday. We believe that Sunday tennis playing would not be repugnant either to the city of Cambridge or to the University, and that it would be welcomed by many students for whom Sunday is often a day of deadly dullness...