Word: validating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...week days and at 11 A. M. on the Sabbath is still compulsory. The whole system of absences is involved in those regulating chapel attendance. A chapel absence counts exactly as an absence from a recitation or lecture, and only such excuses as are valid for one are valid for the other. The only excuse that can be offered for any absence is a physician's certificate stating that he has been consulted and has seen reason to forbid attendance. Twenty absences a term (making fifty a year) are allowed, and are expected to cover all other cases...
...wish to signal out, but rather an accident in our college life. It is scarcely fair to expect men of the average age of the American collegian to compete in strength or breadth of mind with the older class who frequent European universities, but there are other equally valid reasons for our shortfallings...
After a long contest, the will of Barbara Scott, an eccentric and miserly woman in Montreal, has been pronounced valid. She willed a large property to public objects, giving $40,000 to McGill University for the foundation of a school of engineering, and leaving the remainder to hospitals, churches and public benefit institutions...
...special interest to freshmen - a $300 prize. The authorities of the Johns Hopkins University offer this valuable prize, open to the students of any college and to persons interested in mathematics, for the valid proof or disproof of this proposition: "A ground form and a syzygant of the same degree and order cannot appertain to the same binary quantity," The solution must be handed in before...
...always been a credit to the university. Looking back on its career it seems incredible that such a paper, one that is representative in every sense, could be suffered to discontinue for financial reasons, and yet the fact is staring the college in the face. There is no valid reason why the four hundred subscribers should not be secured, and they will be easily obtained if every man sees to it such appeal to. Harvard ought to be necessary, but since it seems to be so let it be generously heeded...