Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Each Student that shall absent himselfe from prayers (there being no Just reason given to and allowed by the President for such absence) shall for the first offence, being absent more than once or comeing tardy more than twice in a week space be punished a penny a time for once absent or twice tardy...
...wild dissipation of a class supper, and to listen to the lofty eloquence of their chosen orators. At half-past nine about thirty couples had assembled, and all was in readiness for the evening's entertainment, when it was discovered that the president, orator and toastmaster were absent. Without these important functionaries nothing could be done, so all proceedings were blocked for about an hour, when, becoming anxious, a committee was sent in search of the lost ones. The report of this committee was harrowing in the extreme. The rooms of the unfortunate absentees were found in great disorder, showing...
...Chemistry I. examination for those absent from the mid-year examination will probably be on June 17th...
...that they had the right to dictate to their instructor what the length of their lessons should be, and the precise moment when their recitations must end, and when the limits, which they had arbitrarily assumed to be right, had been slightly exceeded. Your son and others concerted to absent themselves from the next recitation, and sent a letter to Prof. Smith, their instructor, informing him how he ought to conduct his recitation in these two respects, and stating why they were to be absent. After a careful enquiry into the case, the faculty are convinced that the class...
...retain longer any title to the description of it given by a well-known man of letters, as "the best body of teachers in the United States," some decisive measures must be taken to insure the continued excellency of its teaching. With so many of its most efficient members absent from duty next year, with the present vacancies that exist in several most important positions still unfilled, and the probability of one or more vacancies to come, and finally with a teaching force diminished and otherwise restricted on account of lack of funds, it would seem as though any prospect...