Word: absentes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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What first led you to think of going to college? Mention the time and age of entering. Mention any difficulties you encountered in getting your education. Were you absent during your college course? Why? Where...
Prof. Ames is still absent from the Law School...
...learned professors the other day, while marking the list of absentees, remarked, as he jotted down the names, "Mr. S. and Mr. R. absent;" and then a moment after, glancing around, innocently queried, "Is there any one else here absent...
...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...
...pleasant surprise on going to the examination Tuesday. After waiting half an hour for their papers a proctor was sent after them, who, returning, reported that the examination had entirely slipped the mind of the professor in charge, who had consequently neglected to prepare any paper - a case of absent-mindedness only equalled perhaps by that of the professor who once on inquiring for his mail at the post-office, was unable to give his own name to the clerk, and departed highly indiguant at the obtuseness of the latter in failing to understand his wants...