Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote was 15 to 8, 14 Republicans and two Democrats voting for immediate consideration of tax reduction, six Democrats and one Re- publican insurgent (Frear of Wisconsin) voting "bonus first," and two members absent...
...last week watched the rapid and vigorous expansion of his boom under the direction of his able and active manager, Frank H. Hitchcock. Johnson has not the organization backing of Coolidge, and he has alienated some Progressives who formerly supported him, such as Borah and Norris, by being "conveniently absent" from the Senate when the attempt was made to oust Newberry, and by voting for the Fordney-McCumber tariff. Nevertheless his campaign is professional, well-financed, well-organized -and to be reckoned with...
President and Mrs. Lowell will be at home, and glad to see all men who are students in the University, at 17 Quincy Street, Sunday afternoon, December 23, between 4 and 6 o'clock. They will be absent from Cambridge on Sunday, December...
When a student in the University has by permission been absent from a section test or even from an hour examination, a card is sent to his instructors informing them that he has been officially excused. No distinction is made between absences caused by necessity such as illness, and those occasioned by other causes such as the extension of the vacation periods. All subsequent action is left to the discretion of the individual instructor...
...given a zero grade on the uncompromising theory that the student should have been present. In the case of men excused by the office for reasons other than that of necessity, this point of view is not unreasonable; but it seems unjust to penalize a man who has been absent because of conditions over which he has no control...