Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Amherst students was held last Saturday to protest against the recent action of the faculty in regard to inter-collegiate sports. A committee on resolutions previously appointed, reported, presenting a strong petition. The preamble set forth the action of the faculty in very emphatic contrast to the recent statements of the president that the college was never better ordered nor the work accomplished more satisfactory...
...remained unsettled, as '82 was unwilling to incur what little responsibility might arise from such action. If anything is to be done this year it should be done very soon to preclude any complaints about the lateness of action. At any rate, some different arrangements must be made in regard to the graduates. At present a number of persons go in with the graduates, who have never had anything to do with the college. The best way to prevent this would be some arrangement by which the graduates could obtain tickets beforehand if they apply in person for them...
...nature of things can be assumed to correspond to our moral needs, to offer them encouragement and religious support? Two or three theories will be passed in review under this head, notably the modern doctrine of progress as an universal law, and the doctrines in general that regard the world as showing us some kind of historical process. Then another view will be suggested as giving us another and higher sense in which we can assume that reality answers our moral needs. Finally, since all views in these matters involve faith as an element, the last discussion will...
...excused from this penalty by vote of the faculty, and this not unless every absence is satisfactorily accounted for. The exercises consist of a portion of the Episcopal service, a chant, lesson, hymn, etc., and last about twenty minutes. The faculty make a point of being particular in regard to chapel and seem to be growing more so as the elective system affords a method of avoiding attendance. "The majority of the students would be pleased, in my opinion," our correspondent writes, "if chapel was abolished...
...part of the students are more varied. They read, study, talk and do any thing they may please, until some few are selected and made an example of. Then there is a lull for a few days, but soon the disorder becomes worse than ever. The rules in regard to attendance are very strict. No liberty whatever is allowed. Every student must be in chapel every morning. If he is not, a deduction is made from his average, unless he has a good excuse. The excuses required are the same as those for absence from lecture or recitation. The only...