Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Jones-158 pounds. Rowed in place of Dewey, 155 pounds, who was absent. His rowing is loose. He should endeavor to sit up and keep his shoulders back. He makes too much work...
...Yale have distinguished themselves by receiving the greatest number of appointments for good scholarship of any class on record. The class of '84 formerly headed the list with ninety-eight names, but '90 has surpassed this number by six. The names of athletic men are conspicuously absent, while there are several society men honored, including four members of the promenade committee. Philosophicals have been assigned to only five men, an unusually small number. The remaining ninety-nine are about equally divided, fifteen receiving high orations, thirteen orations, thirteen dissertations, fifteen first deputies, sixteen second deputies, twelve first colloquies and fifteen...
...Newell, '89, who has been absent from college about a month on account of illness, intends to start for the south next week, where he will spend a month recuperating...
...great many of the regular members of the chapel choir will be absent from Cambridge on Sunday next, Mr. Locke requests all students who can sing either tenor or bass and who can be in Cambridge on Sunday, to attend the rehearsal of the choir in Appleton Chapel, Saturday morning, at 9 o'clock...
Last Friday evening the Glee Club gave a concert at the Town Hall, Watertown, under the auspices of the Unitarian Club. About one-fourth of the men were absent, including several of the soloists. The solos were taken by other men, and an improvised quartette made up for the other deficiences, so on the whole the concert was successful...