Word: attendance
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PERHAPS no community of men is less subject to the thoughts which attend a realizing sense of the inevitability and imminence of death than a college community; and this for several reasons. Of these the most important is the age of its members, to which the consideration of death is both repugnant and unnatural. All our pursuits have a direct bearing on our immediate future which they presuppose, and therefore our future as a whole is apt to find no place in our calculations. We are eminently a hopeful community. Success in some one or other of its forms seems...
Resolved, That a suitable delegation from the class be appointed to attend the funeral...
...these Services may not be generally understood, we are desired to say that a small number (about one fifth) of them fall on the same evening with business meetings; the rest of them are not intended to be exclusive, but are meant for all undergraduates who care to attend, on Monday evenings or any of the days set apart by the Episcopal Church, the Evening Service as appointed for that day. Cards giving a list of Services can be procured from' the Secretary, 41 Weld, or at the room of the Society, 17 Grays...
...point out the best way. Every one knows that to nine tenths of us the present system is a perfect farce, and is therefore positively harmful. In Oxford and Cambridge, whence so many wonderful changes are expected, there are both morning and evening prayers; though only an occasional attendance is required. Could not we have some modification of this rule? We might have prayers twice a day, but only be required to attend once; a provision which would accommodate both the early and the late risers. There are many in the latter class who are injured physically by getting...
...attend to some temporal needs...