Word: absent
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...deduction of eight is made for being absent or tardy at a recitation. It certainly seems that this rule will decrease the number of those who are tardy, but increase those who are absent; for if a person who has perhaps not prepared his lesson finds himself late, he does not at all relish the idea of going in and running the risk of receiving thirty-two additional deductions which the instructor can impose upon him, and so naturally cuts the recitation entirely, - a result most probably different from the one intended...
...placed at a discount, and we are too much tempted to do only what will please. Roughing a man on his personal and long-established habits never goes far towards removing them. It is only disagreeable and offensive to him. "A. C." mentions a loafer made studious and an absent-minded man reformed by this "system." I very much doubt the existence of such cases...
...best circumstances is open to the charge of injustice. It is hard to say that a man shall be deprived of all instruction by the College for three or six months for a mere technicality; because he failed to attend the requisite number of prayers, because he was absent a certain number of times from church without an excuse, because perhaps he was seen on Jarvis "Bloody Monday night." It is still harder to say that a man must be separated for a longer or shorter term from the University, because to what seemed to him a rude remark from...
...little reason for believing, with Dr. McCosh, that the students will be able to prepare themselves for the examinations and still be absent from Cambridge for weeks at a time, without thinking of college work. Now, most find it necessary to be pretty attentive to their tasks; if there is a change, more work rather than less will be necessary...