Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President McCosh said at the beginning of his address, that he would not "compel students to attend religious services." Why then did he afterwards regret that "upward of eight hundred students at Harvard have asked that they be not required to attend prayers?" We cannot see the distinction between "compelling students to attend religious services" and their being "required to attend prayers," that Dr. McCosh seems anxious to make. Either there is some important distinction, or Princeton's president has been grossly illogical...
...religion should be honorable and unmistakable. Never has the question 'Is life worth living' been asked with such persistency as now. The college teacher should answer it, when questioned by the student under his charge. More than eight hundred Harvard students have petitioned not to be required to attend prayers, and they are supported by the faculty. It must be difficult to maintain a religious feeling in such a state of affairs...
...schools, which calls forth, on account of the proximity of London, a tremendous crowd of spectators. This game may be called the closing event of the London season, as the Oxford-Cambridge boat race may be said to inaugurate the season. The fashionable Londoner makes it a point to attend both events, if it be possible...
...eyes swim and I wonder whether my hair will be light pink or blue the next day. This may sound fearful, but I have got such severe headaches from this tri-weekly broiling that I prefer to cut and grind up the course in the library rather than attend the lectures. A few curtains will not impoverish our lords and masters, and will cure the defect; - why can't they be hung there at once, especially as Mass, will soon be used as an examination-room...
Meeting in 21 T., at 8 p. m., Thursday, to discuss the advisability of beginning a series of Physical Seminars. All interested in Physics are earnestly requested to attend...