Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...village near Tours in 1514. He settled in Antwerp in 1549. Tradition affirms that he was first interested in typography as a result of a wounded arm. His workmanship earned for him a reputation as the best printer of his time. In 1562, while Plantain himself was absent, his workmen printed an heretical pamphlet, as a result of which his movable equipment was seized and sold. He succeeded in establishing a new press which was later destroyed by the Spaniards who plundered the town...
...very important that students attend the first meetings of all courses after mid-years. Any instructor may refuse to admit an undergraduate to his course if he is absent from the first meeting. Attendance at the meeting does not serve as official enrollment in the course; students must include the course in their list of studies...
...Arthur Warner, which appeared in "The Nation" during the recent Christmas recess. Says Mr. Warner: "I found that partisanship and rancor had permeated almost every circle, even to Harvard University, the president of which had offered one thousand students (who fortunately never appeared) to take the places of absent police, while one of the lecturers had addressed a gathering of policemen's wives so sympathetically that a number of graduates were demanding, under pain of not contributing to the endowment fund, that his mouth be stopped...
...first place, President Lowell did not offer "one thousand students to take the place of absent police." His summons were: "All students who can do so prepare themselves for such service as the Governor may call upon them to render," and "these volunteers are reporting simply as citizens and not as strike-breakers." Approximately two hundred and fifty undergraduates of the Summer School answered his call. Furthermore, no Harvard lecturer addressed a gathing of policemen's wives. And we call on Mr. Villard to present facts which would support the statement that "a number of graduates were demanding, under pain...