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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Chas. T. Libbey, tutor in Freshman Mathematics and German. College House...
Chas. T. Libbey, tutor in Freshman Mathematics and German. College House...
...which has taken place in regard to compulsory morning chapel from the time of the Puritan founders of Harvard to the present day. Nowhere can the gradual modification and broadening of Puritanism be more clearly shown. Originally there being no chapel, services were held by each class in their tutor's room, but this was given up, and the college met as a whole in rooms in different buildings until finally Holden chapel was constructed. Under President Dunster's regime, before the chapel had been erected, there were some quaint old rules in force. "Every schollar shall be present...
...were given gratis. Only the most urgent excuse could be received. In 1731 the overseers recommended additional fines for "playing or sleeping at publick worship or prayers," and it was further declared by them that if any "undergraduate comes tardy to prayers (without reasons allowed by ye president or tutor) he shall be fined two-pence. And if he be absent from prayers without reasons as aforesaid, he shall be fined four-pence each time. If a student walked around Cambridge or the yard on the Lord's Day, he was fined not more than three shillings for this...
...Tutor-for tutor in preparatory and freshman year studies, address, C. W. Lucas, '78, 36 No. Avenue, Cambridge...