Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...serious societies may be dismissed with a word. They are wretched, dead affairs, which are only held together by shingles and seals. If you join one, you will attend a meeting or two, find it stupid, and afterwards stay away. The treasurer will send you a bill or two, which you will forget to pay. Your name will be posted, but nobody will read it. And in the end you will resign, having gained no advantage except a certificate of membership. The truth is that French clubs and German clubs and chess clubs have no real reason for existence...
PROF. MCCRADY will deliver a course of general lectures at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. All students interested in zoology are invited to attend. The lectures will be delivered in the Lecture-Room of the Museum, at 10 o'clock, A. M., every Saturday, beginning...
...explained to him that we were allowed seventy-two cuts and I had taken thirty-six. "For omitting to attend at morning and evening prayers for thirteen days I was suspended from my seniority. I am glad you do not indulge in long and powdered hair," he continued. "They gave me a private because I refused to cut off these shining locks." He was evidently trying to impress upon me that he was one of the "nuts...
...begin to do the amount of work that is performed by those who teach us. It can be shown, we think, that in proportion to their whole number, more instructors than students have broken down from overwork. For the sake of us both, then, gentlemen of the Corporation, attend to this prayer...
...perhaps generally understood that by the new rule, which allows men in one department of the University to share in the advantages of any other department, students of the Law School, Medical School, Bussey Institution, and the other professional schools are allowed to attend morning prayers...