Word: attendance
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...reason which has induced the Faculty to discontinue the study. But, however hasty the reading of the text-books has been, certain fundamental truths have dawned upon minds which otherwise would have lacked their light. Little is gained from the recitations which the men have to attend if they fail to pass the original examination, while, as our contributor says, "dawdling over the book, bit by bit, for six or seven weeks, is a trial sufficient to cool the ardor of the most enthusiastic scholar." He proposes therefore that an examination, like the one formerly held for those who wanted...
...years as interesting for intellectual gymnastics, but intrinsically valueless; and whenever I breathe the names of the philosophers I have been so laboriously mastering (?) for the last three years, whether it is Noah Porter or Descartes, whether among my friends or in the "causeries de has bleus" which I attend, I am immediately confronted with the bete noir of Herbert Spencer. Like Banquo's ghost it will not down, but still provokes me with its taunting mystery...
...Dartmouth the students seem not to have appreciated Fast Day. "Fast Day came and went as such days usually do, devoted to odd jobs and various time-killing expedients. Quite a number went to Lebanon to attend the services of the Methodist Conference, and meetings were held in the vestry here at the usual hours. But the majority seemed to be employed in getting over the effects of the entertainment of the night before...
...active measures should be taken at once to prevent such fearful results, and results even more to be feared. "In man there is nothing great but mind"; why then should we let anything take us for a moment from our minds? We come here to cultivate them; why then attend to anything else? It is a waste of time to take three hours a day from this short life of ours and devote them to filling our stomachs with food; to occupy precious moments (when we might be storing our minds instead of our stomachs) with an employment which requires...
...Attend where...