Word: attendance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policy of Hutchins toward a new liberalism in college supervision. This latest move will make it possible for a student to enter the University of Chicago, remain in school for a entire year, and yet never be subjected to an examination. He may be enrolled and yet never attend a class. But--regardless of the apparent laxity in the method of handling students--it is very unlikely that great numbers will flock to the Midway anticipating an easy year. That final comprehensive examination will give the students reason to study...
...urging members of the University to attend a mass meeting in the Lowell House Common Room at 7.30 o'clock tonight, the Harvard Liberal Club hopes to gather together a fairly representative opinion on the current Sino-Japanese crisis. The vital points in the situation will be outlined for the audience by A. N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government; B. C. Hopper '24, assistant professor of Government; and W. L. Langer '15, associate professor of History. After their briefs talks on the different phases of the subject there will be a short period of questions from the floor, and this...
...order that Mrs. Reginald Gervis Hargreaves, the original Alice of Alice in Wonderland, might come from her home in Lyndhurst. England to attend the ceremonies, Columbia University postponed its celebration of the 100th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's birth from Jan. 27 to May 4, which will be Mrs. Hargreaves' 80th birthday. The postponement was arranged to spare Mrs. Hargreaves the rigors of a winter voyage. "Alice" alone survives of the three daughters of Dean Henry George Liddell for whom Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), the sombre, pedantic young Oxford lecturer, composed the fantastic "Wonderland" stories. Her husband...
...supplied a certain amount of drama of his own kind. He bade a friendly farewell to the warden whose broken wrist was in a sling. Said he: "Gee, I feel sorry for you." (The warden, for the first time in his twelve years administration, did not attend the execution.) He walked grinning to the chair, told one of the guards that one of the electrodes against his leg did not seem tight enough, and he died...
...room where the charge of manslaughter was being entered against him. During the arraignment photographers were expelled from court. Walter's brother, Lawyer Alfred E. Smith Jr. and his cousin, Lawyer John J. Glynn defended him, got a week's postponement on $1,000 bail so that he could attend college examinations. They told newsmen that the victim had stepped in front of Walter's automobile, that Walter tried to swerve out of the way but was blocked by another car. The city toxicologist reported finding alcohol in the dead man's brain. In Boston Leo Curley...