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- Feb. 1838 (Creation)
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1 folded sheet, printed. Small section missing from bottom of second page.
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'Published by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Undergraduates'. Table of attendance by each Fellow at the morning and evening services each day, marked by 'o' or 'x'. with 'Sum Total' recorded at the end.
Includes note,' The Society, though gratified to find that their labours have had the effect of producting more regularity on the whole, among the Fellows, will not relax in their endeavours to promote the cause of Religion...'
Addressed by hand to 'Revd Thompson, Trinity College'.
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Tipped into R.1.75.
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O.10a.38: 'Copy of certain papers, notices &c connected with or issued by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Undergraduates in 1838'. Contains copies of all 'Attendance Sheets' issued by the Society in Feb.-Mar. 1838, as well as of four humorous poems on the subject. With notes by W. W. Rouse Ball.
C.13.60-63, 66, 75. '[Chapel lists and other ephemera relating to regulations regarding chapel attendance in Trinity College published by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Undergraduates].' Collections of attendance lists, verse, notes and correspondence etc, received from various sources.
C.13.64. Forms used for non-attendance at Chapel by the Deans, pasted onto 6 pieces of cardboard.
C.13.65. Copy of the Bible with inscription on front flyleaf, 'From the Undergraduates of Trinity College to the Revr Charles Perry, M. A. as a mark of affection, and esteem for the good example which he set them, and the rest of the College by his constant attendance at Chapel'.
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An account of the forming of the 'Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Undergraduates' can be found in Ball, W. W. Rouse. Cambridge Papers. London: Macmillan, 1918, Chap. 4 (pp. 71-83).