Word: absent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wish to suggest to certain instructors that recitations are voluntary. Those gentlemen seem to ignore this fact when they mark students who are constant in attendance at recitations with greater leniency than those who are frequently absent. If the Faculty has seen fit to make a rule which gives us voluntary recitations, professors have no right to take an independent position and to state that men will find it advantageous not to cut. Provided a man write an accurate examination-paper, it is decidedly unfair to take absences into consideration in making up the marks of any elective. In addition...
...going to keep a diary this year. Cousin Sue gave me this; and, when I get back to college, it will help recall her to me. Had a talk with the governor to-day. He thinks I don't study enough, and wonders why I am absent from recitation so much. Resolved to brace, - to go to bed at 10.30 P.M. and get up to prayers all the rest of this year. Shall not go to the theatre at all till after the "Semis." What a lot you could accomplish in life, if you wasted no time! (That...
WILY Sophomore kindly consents to supply the place of an Absent Friend, and sacrifice himself by replying to A. F. 's name at lecture in Pol. Econ. 14. Professor unfortunately recognizes him. Prof. loq. Ah, Mr. Cutts, you are not in this elective, are you? Mr. Cutts. Well, no, sir, but I heard the lectures were so very interesting I thought I 'd like to just drop in. Prof. all smiles, but A. F. has to take his absence...
...then, though absent ever...
...dear face, though absent, still...