Word: attendance
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...There will be in residence at Cambridge, during the present Lent term, more than fifty students, who have come from a distance to attend the lectures on the higher Education of Women...
...students who do not obtain permission to spend Sundays regularly with their family or friends are required to attend church in the forenoon of every Sunday of the Academic year...
...this distinction is manifestly unjust to those of us who live at a distance from Cambridge. Why should those who can pass their Sundays at home be exempted from attendance at church more than others? Is it because their fathers are expected to control their actions? If so, why then should a Western father be denied the privilege granted to others of controlling the church attendance of his son? If he wishes that his son should attend regularly, can he not write directions to that effect? If he wishes that he should be excused altogether, can he not write that...
...neglect of students to attend the Monday lectures can be explained without reference either to the "effete religion" of the Divinity School or to the Nation. The lectures are not attended by students, because they come at an hour when few can leave Cambridge without neglecting their studies. The writer seems himself to have recognized this reason, as he saw his "genius" on New Year's Day, - a college, though not a public, holiday. The presence of our professors at these lectures has several times been noticed by the public prints: does this look like snubbing Mr. Cook...
...suggestion of the Visiting Committee that themes should be required of Seniors and Freshmen as well as of Sophomores and Juniors is one which we sincerely hope will not be acted on. In order to eradicate the more obvious faults such as it is possible to attend to in exercises on which the instructor can bestow as little time as on college themes, the amount of work now required is sufficient. If the instructor could consider each theme carefully, and afterwards criticise it in connection with the writer, the case would be different, since then the field for correction would...