Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Religion at Cornell: "Attendance is purely voluntary. It must be very severe weather indeed which prevents the Chapel from being full, while it is often so overcrowded that some have to go away." - Amherst Student...
...natural effect has been to make our professors and many of the trustees look upon some permanent student committee as a growing necessity, and we now have promise that...
...Princetonian errs when it supposes that the Harvard Conference Committee is not its own "judge of time for meeting the committee of the faculty." Indeed the name, "the committee of the faculty," implies a distinction which does not exist. The Harvard Conference Committee consists of members from faculty and students, and is only one committee. The following vote of the faculty, taken from the scheme of conference, explains very clearly the relations between faculty and student members: "That the business of the conference be the discussion of subjects proposed either by the faculty members or student members; but that...
...Princetonian says editorially: "We understand that Princeton will undoubtedly in the near future have a student conference committee. It is something which undergraduates have urged again and again in the past, but which may be said to have grown from the emergencies of the present year. On several occasions during the past few weeks self-appointed committees of students have presented one claim and another before the faculty or one of its numerous committees...
...certainly too early to say just what will be the organization and sphere of this student committee. We venture, however, to predict that it will not be an Amherst Senate to have charge of the discipline of the college. We want a conference committee, and a committee which, unlike the conference committee of Harvard, shall be their own judge of the time for meeting the committee of the faculty. We believe also that while the under-classes should be represented, the committee should be essentially of upper classmen, as in the proportion as power is associated with the senior...