Word: student
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Attendance is required at nine-tenths of all the exercises in each branch of study at Amherst, and when the limit is surpassed the student is notified officially by the registrar of the college. If any more cuts are taken after notification, the student goes before the president of the college and is reprimanded. A student may save all his cuts till the end of the year and thus add about a week to his summer vacation...
...examination each student will receive one of his briefs and be expected to elaborate carefully the argument he has outlined...
...examination papers will present three or four disputed questions of sufficiently varied and general interest to enable each student to treat one of them. Accompanying each topic will be a syllabus of the evidence, pro and con, upon which the controversy rests; and from this syllabus a brief must be constructed and an argument elaborated to sustain the proposition and meet the objections presented...
...commendable exception to this rule, and at present a fairly large collection of books has been amassed, through the efforts of instructors and alumni. Every volume of the lot relates more or less directly to some one of the courses in the curriculum. And in this way, the student's attention is more firmly drawn to his work, doubly so as he is not distracted by shelves of useless contemporary fiction. It is to be hoped that others of our leading preparatory academics will follow the admirably example set by Phillips Exeter...
...student in the academic department, including specials, who has not received the list of questions from the Committee of the Faculty on Athletics can obtain it at the office...