Word: threads
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...remains, which, if possible, is still more annoying than the one just mentioned. We mean the practice, unfortunately not confined to Ninetythree, of leaving the lecture room during the hour. The disturbance occasioned by only one man's leaving the room while the lecturer is speaking often breaks the thread of the lecturer's thought, and so wastes time for him and the whole class. When several men leave one after the other the loss of time is very appreciable. But the loss of time is not so great an evil as the ungentlemanly character of the proceeding...