Word: absents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...worse the students behaved, the better it was for the college. At Harvard there was a schedule of fifty-five offences punishable by penalties varying from two pence, for absence from prayers, to two pounds ten shillings, for absence from town for a month. If a man was absent from recitation, it cost him 1s. 6d.; if he got drunk, the penalty was no greater. Going to meeting before the ringing of the bell was an offence, and the over-prompt student was fined 6d. The penalty for playing cards was 5s. for graduates, 2s. 6d. for undergraduates...
Ferris, the sparring master at the gymnasium, will be absent in Exeter for ten days during the examinations. Attention of pupils is called to this notice...
Ferris, the sparring master at the gymnasium, will be absent in Exeter for ten days during the examinations. Attention of pupils is called to this notice...
...provision by which students over twenty-one, and the parents of those under twenty-one could obtain release from the requisition. It would give reality to the religious import of attendance. At Antioch a student to whom I gave permission, at his father's request, to be always absent, become immediately regular and punctual in coming; he had, it appears, complained only of the compulsion, and was willing and glad to come when free...
...first call for candidates to try for the nine resulted in a very business like meeting yesterday afternoon. A large number of men presented themselves then and there, and several others who were absent have signified their intention of trying, so that the whole number of men authoritatively considered candidates is eighteen. Of this number eight have previously had more or less experience on the university eleven. They are Winslow, '85; Beaman, '85; Crocker, '85; Boyden, '85; Allen, '86; Nichols, 86; Smith, '86; and Tilden, '87. The new men are Wiestling, '87. H. Coolidge, '87: G. P. Baker, '87; Litchfield...