Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...twelve, - I indulged in the delights of a five-cent cigar, and felt horribly and horribly guilty for the next three days. A mater is a sort of colossal Mrs. Jellyby. She was so busy with the affairs of the outer world that she cannot find time to attend to the manners and morals of her children; and the natural consequence is that some of these children fall into the very objectionable practice of eating with their knives, while others, of a more vicious if more elegant temperament, indulge in various excesses of behavior and language which cannot command...
...take care of himself and responsible for his own conduct in the same way and to the same extent as any other citizen." Now, inasmuch as the ordinary citizen is not compelled, early in the morning, to "run and worship God" on week-days; nor on Sundays to "attend morning service and remain during the entire service," the World fails to see why we Harvard citizens should be obliged to do so. It blames particularly Emerson for "coming down from Concord to oppose a motion for the discontinuance of morning prayers," and James Freeman Clarke, "the liberal of the liberals...
...ABBOTT LAWRENCE has been elected Speaker of the Assembly. There will be debates every Friday night, which undergraduates are invited to attend...
...instructor remarked that the process took up time that might be employed much more profitably. He held out hopes that the time was not far distant when it might be done away with entirely, and Juniors and Sophomores, as well as Seniors, would no longer be obliged to attend lectures or recitations by threats of punishment for their absence. We would all be raised, that is, from the condition of eye-servants to the state of men who feel responsibility, and act accordingly. Until this is done we can never seriously claim that Harvard is anything more than a high...
...action of the Faculty in requiring Seniors to get fifty per cent in every examination, and it has occurred to me that it is a subject worthy of notice in the Crimson also. I understand that this requisition is put upon Seniors to offset the privilege of voluntary attendance at recitations. The Faculty recognize the liability of a student's loafing through the first half of the year, failing on the Semi, and making it up at the Annual. This mode of procedure they intend to prevent by making fifty per cent the requisite mark in every examination. In this...