Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opening of each lecture in Natural History IV. Prof. Shaler reads the names of those absent at the previous lecture, with the number of their seats, so that all mistakes of the monitor may be corrected before the list of absences is handed in at the office. The plan is to be commended, as preventing all mistakes...
...fine material from which hard work and strict attention may form an excellent eight. The men, however, must be cautioned that the strictest regularity in coming to the gymnasium is necessary; it will never do for a man to present himself for a day or two and then be absent for the rest of the week. The captain complains of this irregularity, that. out of the thirty-five men who have signed their names as candidates, only three eights, and some times but two. can be got together in the gymnasium. It is to be hoped that, after foot-ball...
...rule is being enforced at Washington, that no clerk shall be absent from his department for more than 30 days in one year, except by special permit, and then without...
...taken round to all the students' rooms, and also to the lecture-rooms, where the combination of tea and study forms a peculiar feature of Girton lectures. Four o'clock is an important hour at Girton, and one that is not willingly missed by students. Those who are absent from their rooms for a short time generally leave a notice on their doors asking for a cup of tea; and another notice that may frequently be observed when walking along the corridors is, "please see to my fire." "Engaged" is also put up by busy students who are anxious...
Guernsey of the Yale crew is suffering from an abscess, and is temporarily absent from his place in the boat...