A.M. 5-5:30 chapel
5:30-6 private devotions
6-6:30 reading and studying
6:30-7 breakfast
7-8 exercise by manual labor
8-8:30 private devotions
8:30-12 studies and recitations
12-12:30 dinner
P.M. 12:30-1:30 exercise by manual labor
1:30-5 studies and recitations
5-5:30 chapel
5:30-6 supper
6-6:30 private devotions
6:30-9 meetings, reading, and writing
9-9:30 devotions in room
9:30-4:30 sleep*
Relations between students and faculty were open and cordial. Whenever there was misunderstanding or disagreement among them, Kendrick was always the one to present the faculty viewpoint. Occasionally he failed to give the main reason which dictated faculty action, in which case, though the students grumbled, his prestige and moral appeal always disarmed them. The faculty never seems to have acted as policemen and student indiscretions were few. That the Executive Committee could be aware there might be some, appears in their statement in 1823 that “persevering attempts have been made to . . . suppress whatever might appear like youthful imprudences,” though they fail to reveal just what the “attempts” were. They later “Resolved that no Student belonging to the Seminary be permitted to smoke in the Seminary, without special license for that purpose, and that those who chew Tobacco shall furnish themselves with spit boxes in the Chapel and in their study rooms to avoid polluting the house.”
Kendrick and the other officers experienced considerable irritation because of the “youthful imprudences” of a member of the Class of 1826, and of the Class of 1827. They dismissed the first because he had “conducted himself unworthy [sic] of a beneficiary … by neglecting his studies, manifesting a spirit of insubordination, frequently propos-
*F. B. Spear, In Memoriam, Philetus Bennett Spear, D.D. (Marquette, 1901), 33-34. Morning Chapel varied from six in winter to five in summer, probably so that students might take advantage of daylight.