Word: performs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Parietal Admonitions" are no longer in the list to enforce discipline. The use of the word "absence" is rather arbitrary, and for that very reason deserves to be remarked. "Absence from a recitation" is taken as the unit of censure by which all failures, enumerated in section 30, to perform duties, are measured. All failures to attend church or prayers are referred to "one absence from prayers" as an unit of censure, five of which are equivalent to one absence from church. Censure marks are, therefore, wholly dispensed with, and "absences" take their place. Seniors and Juniors, since they have...
...conclusion, I would suggest that Holy Week is a time when all good Episcopalians should be at church, and so the large number of "us Episcopalians" in college should feel obliged to the Faculty for putting the vacation at a time when they can perform their duty as churchmen without cutting recitations...
...given me by Mr. Hut. I had been working as hard as I could on his course, but, as he had given me more work than I could perform by studying twenty-three hours a day, I did not expect a very exalted mark. To-day, on entering his chamber of horror, I saw the section sitting with their heads buried in their hands, and Mr. Hut gazing at them with an air of triumph. Creeping to the desk, I gasped: "My mark?" "Eighteen per cent," briskly answered he of condition fame. After the recitation, when about to poison myself...
...President shall preside at all meetings, and enforce all laws and regulations of the Club. In his absence the Vice-President shall perform his duties; should no Vice-President be present at a meeting, a Chairman shall be chosen by vote of the Executive Committee...
...sides, making it our duty to notice it. Many men look beyond the mere inconvenience that they consider will inevitably arise from the change; they regard it as an infringement of their rights, and as such they demur. It looks to them like employing a retainer who will perform the function not only of scout and attendant, but also of a special detective. We are reluctant to believe that this is the case, for such a system of espionage would be opposed to what we had always supposed to be the spirit of the University...