Word: absents
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...trying to solve a math problem with glee. But usually it was the other way around; math class was absorbed by writing sonnets, and I left without having understood the material. I refused to do homework, sometimes even to study. By the end of senior year, I was so absent even when present, that my math teacher asked my twin brother what was going on. My brother, who remained in honors math with considerably more ease, just shrugged. It was just...
...they are right: the dinner is exceptional not only because of the HUDS effort, but simply because faculty members are normally absent from our dining halls. Apart from the advising nights when representatives of each concentration descend upon dining halls to promote their fields, there rarely is reason to see a faculty member eat with students. It would be fascinating to discover how much professors who more recently arrived at Harvard know about the Houses: do they know their locations? Do they know that Dunster is not just a street, and Eliot not just a former University president...
...advocates had been preparing to protest the military’s presence on campus last week, said Rebecca S. Tinio ’00, a second-year Yale law student and a board member of the Student/Faculty Alliance for Military Equality (SAME). But on Thursday, with the Pentagon conspicuously absent from the group of employers conducting interviews with students, the atmosphere on campus was “joyful,” Tinio said...
...first action since a disheartening loss to Trinity, Harvard played shorthanded in Saturday’s contest against Penn (8-4, 3-3). Absent from the Crimson’s ladder were Suchde and Oren, who had competed at the No. 1 and 3 spots respectively against the Bantams...
That remains the big unanswered question. Everyone in Washington knows it would be political suicide to cut the benefits of today's retirees or those about to retire. Absent those options, there are only three ways to bring the system into fiscal balance: cut future benefits, raise taxes or borrow the money, which adds to the debt...