Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University tea to be held in Phillips Brooks House next Friday, Christmas Day, from 4 to 6 o'clock, President and Mrs. Eliot will receive members of the University, absent from home, who remain in Cambridge during the recess. Carols will be sung by the chapel choir...
Previous to the Carlisle football game, a notice was published in the CRIMSON by the Student Council in reference to cutting on the days of the big games. It was stated that on the corresponding Saturday of last year 161 men were absent from their 12 o'clock appointments and on the day of the Dartmouth game last year there were 228 men cut the last hour in the morning. Here was one of the so-called evils of intercollegiate athletics, and in particular intercollegiate football, and it happened to be one of the first to be dealt with...
...what little remained of the rush, there has been less to contend with each year until last night there was practically no disturbance. It appeared as though the hoodlums had anticipated a quiet evening and stayed in their regular haunts, so that the worst feature of former occasions was absent. Though it seemed at first an ill-advised arrangement to hold the official reception for Freshmen on that particular night, nothing came of it, and the crowd dispersed unmolested on leaving the Union...
...competition has never been a distinct success, for the reason that such victories that might be gained are never satisfying to the healthy-minded undergraduate. The satisfaction of contact and occasional victory in honest rivalry make intercollegiate contests interesting, and as soon as the chief motive for competing is absent, the effect will be evident...
Dean Briggs will leave Cambridge on Tuesday and be absent until February 10. He will visit St. Louis first, where he will be entertained at the University Club, and will dine with the Harvard Club. He will also visit the Harvard Clubs of Columbia, Omaha, Rocky Mountains, Southern California, and Louisiana, and will address the students of the University of Kansas at Lawrence. He will return via Atlanta, Washington and New York...