Word: absents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tramp up to the Botanical Garden, through the mud, only to find that there was no lecture. It seems to us that when recitations are held so far away as this, or at the Zoological Museum, due notice ought to be given if the instructors intend beforehand to be absent. But they are not content with letting us find out for ourselves that there is to be no recitation. They even employ a person to call the roll in their absence, and then we are made responsible for what we have not missed. The person thus employed, when questioned, said...
These girls think that I know everything; they call me "Mr. Tournville" when I am present, but when I am absent, "Frank." I like to watch them as they sit making tatting, or crocheting " fascinators"; they can talk just as well as though their hands were idle. I dont know about that Faith; it seems to me that she is just a little too quick in her retorts. She advises me to be a humorist - could sarcasm go further? But she doesn't know as much as she ought to, for she asked me one day whether the college course...
...Saturday hours. Many of the students whose homes are within fifty miles of Cambridge go home on Friday afternoon or Saturday morning, and do not return to Cambridge until Monday morning. A large proportion of those who thus go home every week do no real studying while they are absent from Cambridge. High scholarship is not to be won on such easy terms. The serious student should regard the days or weeks in term-time, when regular lectures, recitations, and laboratory work are intermitted, as time to be used for reading, writing, and converse with comrades in intellectual pursuits...
...public solely for the information of my fellow-students. It seems that the men who go to hour examinations and, finding the papers not to their taste, leave early, have at last been outwitted. For if a man cuts an hour examination he receives the penalty for being absent at an examination; whereas if he is present it is called a recitation, and therefore, if he leaves early, he is liable to be marked absent. So that if a man does not go to an hour examination they call it one thing, and if he does go they call...