Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following named are the officers of Delta Upsilon for the ensuing term: President, R. B. Wilcox, '83; vice-president, G. H. Hewitt, '83; secretary, C. F. Carrier, '85; treasurer, R. S. Bickford...
...Williams chapel is held twice a day - morning and evening, except Wednesday and Saturday evenings, Sunday morning being regular church service. "If a student's unexcused absence from college prayers exceed ten in any one term he shall be admonished, or otherwise dealt with at the discretion of the faculty." "No excuse for absence from Sunday service shall be accepted, unless, when possible, rendered to a member of the faculty previous to the absence." Morning chapel is at 8.50 in the winter, at 7.50 in the summer. Evening chapel is at 5.30 in the winter, at 6 in the summer...
...recitation or lecture, and only such excuses as are valid for one are valid for the other. The only excuse that can be offered for any absence is a physician's certificate stating that he has been consulted and has seen reason to forbid attendance. Twenty absences a term (making fifty a year) are allowed, and are expected to cover all other cases. If a student is called away for a day, on some business or other necessity, he receives four absences - morning chapel and his three recitations or lectures. A Sabbath morning absence from chapel counts as three...
...meetings are held Sunday evening, and a general college meeting Thursday evening, at which from one-third to one-half of the students are present. The new system allows the student to cut one-tenth of the required exercises, e. g., seven out of the seventy chapel exercises this term, without rendering an excuse. The trustees and faculty are practically unanimous in supporting this number of services, but the students strongly object to more that one compulsory service on Sunday. The afternoon church is in great disfavor among the students, it being the general opinion that the only object...
...arrangement now in force the term of membership of many of the members - those, that is, who have joined for half a year only - expires on the 22d of this month. The membership of the society will thus suddenly be very greatly diminished...