Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department. Professor Sheldon in retiring gives up his courses on "Old French Literature", on the "History of French Literature prior to the Fourteenth Century", and on "French Literature in the fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries." Professor Ford is scheduled to give the second of these courses, but will himself be absent at least for the second half year, and will be unable to give his course on the "Novel and Tale in Italy and Spain from the beginning of the Medieval Period to the Eighteenth Century" or his Spanish courses...
...Department of Music Professor E. B. Hill '94 will be absent for the year. His absence will cause a number of changes in the curriculum. Professor W. R. Spalding, a newcomer in the Department, will give Professor Hill's courses on the "History of Music from Bach to the Present day" and on "Appreciation of Music". Professor Spalding will also take two courses formerly given by Professor W. C. Heilman '00--"Harmony" and "Canon and Fugue". While Professor Hill is away Mr. Foote will conduct the courses on "DIndy, Faure, and Debussy", and "Instrumentation". Mr. Stuart Mason will give...
...gone when the newspaper man is the avowed enemy of the University. Petty anti-college prejudices have passed with the progress of American education. What was once considered smart has become cheap. The jokes on the college man are passing with those state and insufferably dull stories of the absent-minded professor. So much for the question general...
...frequency with which players cut classes is only very slightly above the average, and the report says: "In view of the fact that members of athletic teams are necessarily absent from Cambridge for some of the more important contests, it is clear that the players, while about the University, attend their courses fully as regularly as students not participating in the major sports. The records at this point are quite consistent with the contention of the players that they are under constant pressure from coaches and managers not to cut courses...
Spring football practice, which started three weeks ago with a squad of forty men, later increasing to sixty, will end today with a stiff scrimmage under the personal supervision of Coach R. T. Fisher '12, who has been absent from Soldiers Field since the beginning of the week. Scrimmages have been going on daily since a week ago Wednesday, and this afternoon's work-out will clear up all doubts in the minds of Coaches Fisher and Knox as to who from the spring squad will be picked to come back early next fall for the regular University practice...