Word: counts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...formerly at 5 P. M. and compulsory) has been abolished, except on the Sabbath. Morning chapel at 8.15 A. M. on week days and at 11 A. M. on the Sabbath is still compulsory. The whole system of absences is involved in those regulating chapel attendance. A chapel absence counts exactly as an absence from a recitation or lecture, and only such excuses as are valid for one are valid for the other. The only excuse that can be offered for any absence is a physician's certificate stating that he has been consulted and has seen reason to forbid...
...dead heat hall count as a dead heat and the race shall be considered as undecided and shall be decided by another race rowed on the following...
...contributor to the Yale News says: "With the exception of one man we have none upon whom we can count to bear away a prize at Mott Haven...
...that have been urged against the examination system is that a test of this kind does not give a fair indication of a man's abilities or of the work he has done on the course throughout the year. In a course where nothing but the two regular examinations count, it is possible for a man to neglect his work during the main part of the year, and by a little hard study, just before the examinations, to obtain as high a mark as the man who worked faithfully and regularly on the course. As no one examination can completely...
...entire abandonment of the freshman required work of which we spoke a few days since. It has always seemed very unjust to many that the freshman year, which is entirely taken up with required work, a great deal of which may be distasteful and onerous to most men, should count so much more than any other subsequent year. As a result a man who received a low mark for his freshman year's work felt no great inclination to study harder afterwards in the hope of bettering his degree, as he felt himself severely handicapped...