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- Mar. 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.
With note, 'The Secretary in presenting his report for the past week, has great pleasure in announcing to the Public that a new regulation has been "Agreed to" by the Master and Seniors of Trinity College, which requires only Six Chapels to be ipso facto kept by the undergraduates'.
Ranking of Fellows in Classes, as 'the examination of the Fellows is now finished', with the marks being the total number of Chapel services attended.
'In consequence of the "New Agreement", the Chapel Lists will "ipso facto" be discontinued for the future'.
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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).