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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...system of absences is involved in those regulating chapel attendance. A chapel absence counts exactly as an absence from a 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RELIGIOUS DISCIPLINE. | 2/27/1883 | See Source »

...short chapel service every evening, with Bible class, full service and sermon on Sundays. Theoretically each student reports her own absence; practically the presence or absence of students other than seniors is noted by teachers distributed through the congregation. Excuses from these exercises may be obtained from the resident physician on health grounds, in rare cases from the lady principal on the plea of great inconvenience. Seniors may absent themselves at discretion, merely reporting that they did so on a given date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RELIGIOUS DISCIPLINE. | 2/27/1883 | See Source »

...George M. Beard, a well known New York physician and medical writer, died in that city yesterday, aged 44 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 1/24/1883 | See Source »

...poor gymnasia or inefficient instructors. His account of an average gymnasium is very amusing and well worth reading. He also deprecates "the lack of a suitable man, with sufficient authority, at the head of the department - a man who is a college graduate, a practical gymnast, and an educated physician...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN COLLEGES. | 1/22/1883 | See Source »

...broken down book-worm whose back is bent, shoulders rounded and eyes ruined. At Harvard College the gymnasium is one of the best equipped in the country, and the students take just as much exercise as the director, who is both a trained gymnast and a skilful physician, counsels. No one ever heard of an accident there. How many young and old men find athletic exercise the only safeguard against dyspepsia or insomnia? It is time this tirade against college athletics ceased. American students, despite all that has been said to the contrary, need rather encouragement than discouragement in respect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETICS DISCOURAGED AT PRINCETON. | 1/18/1883 | See Source »

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