Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plan has been devised by Prof. Croswell in Greek 1, by which any man who is absent from a recitation and hands in, at some time, a translation of the passage read at such recitation will be marked as present...
Senator Pendleton is said to have recently declined to deliver an address before the Historical Society of this college in accordance with his invariable rule not to absent himself from Washington while the Senate is in session...
...Professor" of Mesmerism, whose entertainment was so ruthlessly broken up by Princeton students last week, has been having further trouble. About noon last Monday he was discovered perambulating through the entries of Witherspoon Hall, entering rooms the occupants of which were absent. He claimed to be looking for certain phrenological charts which were torn from the walls by the crowd who broke up his show, and which he believed were concealed in some of the students' rooms. He was summarily ejected by the college police, as the college law forbids strangers the privileges of the buildings unless accompanied by students...
...illustrate this than by referring to the Yale crew of 1883. A more magnificent body of men physically never sat in a shell. But what was the use of this combination of strength, length of reach, and power of endurance, when we find the first essential and greatest requisite absent_viz, skill! These eight men had been trained to row a cramped or chopping stroke, with not one particle of execution. In fact, this crew did not extend from start to finish, but exhausted their strength and frittered away their power, simply in motion and movement which was neither graceful...
...with prizes dependent on his marks, and sends him out with a certificate of excellence. The other patterns the freedom of the German universities (which do not correspond to our colleges), would treat the student as a man responsible only to himself, permits him to be present or absent at his choice, and otherwise regards him as a free and independent American citizen. The one argues that the student must be trained to enter the world through close supervision and with immediate motives in view; the other believes that he must learn before he enters the world that he must...