Word: stayed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...favor by their presence in numbers large enough to fill the hall, and then there would be no need to throw open the doors to outsiders in order to get an audience. As the seats are reserved and tickets can be had for the asking, no one can stay away in the excuse that it is necessary to go early to get a seat, or that they do not feel like paying to hear a lecture on a subject in which they are not particularly interested...
...seven o'clock, as the train was nearing the Mississippi, Leighton, '88, came aboard and detailed the programme for the stay in St Louis. That very evening there was to be an informal reception at the University Club: next day, the clubs were to take luncheon at the St. Louis Club through the kindness of Davis, '89, then the concert in the evening and, last of all, the Imperial ball. The programme was fully carried...
...barge carried the members from the concert room to the Imperial ball, where the visitors were at once made to feel at home. The stay at the ball was very short, however, because the party was booked to leave St. Louis by special train shortly after midnight. With many regrets expressed on all sides, the Harvard men were driven to the station where they lost no time in stowing themselves away in the sleeping-cars...
...clubs will leave Cincinnati early Thursday morning in a special parlor car on the Ohio and Mississippi R. R. and will arrive at St. Louis at 7 o'clock the same day. They will be guests at the Southern Hotel during their stay in St. Louis. The concert in St. Louis will be given Friday evening in Entertainment Hall. The students have been invited to attend the Imperial ball, one of the great social events of the year, but as they will be compelled to leave St. Louis very soon after the concert, not more than an hour...
...This negligence could be overlooked if it were exceptional, but once the example of coming in late is set, it is soon found to be contagious. Common courtesy both to the instructor and student demands promptness at all recitations, and if a man cannot be fairly promp, let him stay away. It is galling to the instructor to see men troop in one by one after the lecture has commenced. Undoubtedly some of the blame for this tardiness rests upon the instructors who thoughtlessly keep their classes beyond the proper limit, but with a little more effort on the part...