Word: punctually
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Play will begin at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. sharp. Contestants will please be punctual as thereby they will prevent the loss of valuable time, and also will greatly assist the managers. Either the turf or clay courts may be used. The entrance fees may be paid at Bartlett's, or to the members of the executive-committee in charge at the grounds. Balls will be provided by the Association...
...from attendance at a service against his will, and he is, moreover, provided he has reached his majority, better qualified to judge concerning such a matter, than the faculty. Leaving out the question as to spiritual benefit, the compulsory attendance at prayers cannot train a man to be more punctual than the necessity to be in class-room at the recitation hour. In fact, there is no earthly excuse for clinging to the old puritanical and narrow-minded policy of compulsory chapel. The college world demands the change and corporations must certainly yield...
...over twenty-one, and the parents of those under twenty-one could obtain release from the requisition. It would give reality to the religious import of attendance. At Antioch a student to whom I gave permission, at his father's request, to be always absent, become immediately regular and punctual in coming; he had, it appears, complained only of the compulsion, and was willing and glad to come when free...
JOKE.The college year at Harvard began on Thursday. The attendance at the School street branch of the university is as large and as punctual as usual.-[Gazette...
...meeting held for the purpose last night, Capt. Borland gave some advice to the candidates for the freshman crews, the importance of which, we hope, will be duly appreciated. He urged the necessity of the punctual attendance at the gymnasium of every man at the time appointed for doing the weights, and said that negligence in this respect and in the doing of the other work on the track and chest-weights, was not only unjust to themselves and to the class, but subjected the coach and the other members of the crew to serious inconvenience, and would be taken...