Word: punctuality
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...thank for the success of the enterprise at Springfield, conceived the idea of connecting the rooms of the different members of the Company with the College bell, by a wire between it and Thayer. From that time we can be sure that the telegraph operators were the most punctual students both at chapel and recitations...
...That, too, when the professor has acknowledged, on one occasion at least, that it was a matter of small importance. Not so much the good we derive from substituting a synonyme for the word we used before is considered, as the fact that this rule teaches us to be punctual. But why deductions are made from our rank, instead of demerits given to us for disobeying a college rule, is a puzzle. Then, too, a large amount is taken off, - a third of the maximum, some say, - for work which does not involve a third part of the labor requisite...