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...Professor A. L. Perry will have general charge of the College while President Chadbourne is absent at Boston, where he is delivering a course of lectures before the Lowell Institute...
...before the President for wearing London styles, fined for having on my back what the Overseers called ruffian-like and new-fangled fashions! How I used to spend my income in paying for the prayers I cut! Beware of absence from the house of prayer! Have you been often absent?" he inquired in a paternal...
...excuse system" has been abolished, and students are now allowed to absent themselves from one quarter of the exercises in each department...
FROM one third of the total number of prayers, during the year, we can be absent without bringing penalties down upon our heads. The rise from fifty permitted absences to seventy-two is not really a great one, but it serves for a guide-post to mark our way. The road we are travelling is a rough one. Barriers in the shape of prejudice and custom delay us; still our progress is steady. On calling his roll, the other day, an instructor remarked that the process took up time that might be employed much more profitably. He held out hopes...
...agree with you. But is this separation which you have mentioned altogether absent from us? It was a bold step, this elective system; and bolder, voluntary recitations. It means that, in power of judgment, men of twenty stand on a level with their instructors. Parental authority is relinquished, and in place of the imposed self-discipline which the rigor of Puritan teachers imposed on the taught, what have we? There is only one substitute possible, - the personal influence of individual character, - and this is wanting. Do not answer by citing this instructor or that, - I rejoice equally with...