midnight
The students of Plato were required to attend chapel every morning . President S. Alcott Wood earnestly gave out two hymns , and between them informed the Almighty of the more important news events of the past twenty-four hours , with a worried advisory manner which indicated that he felt something should be done about them at once . President Wood was an honest , anxious body , something like a small , learned , Scotch linen-draper . He was given to being worried and advisory and to sitting up till midnight in his unventilated library , grinding at the task of putting new wrong meanings into perfectly obvious statements in the Bible . He was a series of circles -- round head with smooth gray hair that hung in a bang over his round forehead ; round face with round red cheeks ; absurdly heavy gray mustache that almost made a circle about his puerile mouth ; round button of a nose ; round heavy shoulders ; round little stomach in a gray sack-suit ; round dumplings of feet in congress shoes that were never quite fresh-blacked or quite dusty . A harassed , honorable , studious , ignorant , humorless , joke-popping , genuinely conscientious thumb of a man . His prayers were long and intimate .