Word: detained
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...believe that lectures should begin promptly and that professors should not be annoyed by troops of tardy students, but we believe also that there is quite as much reason for closing lectures with the ringing of the bell. It is, of course, necessary at times for the lecturer to detain his class for two or three minutes. When, however, this delay becomes a settled practice as it has with a few professors we feel that the trouble thereby caused is serious enough to demand a protest. Strict observance of college hours is a virtue which may well be adopted...
...many of our colleges the professors are treated in an arrogant, dictatorial way that cannot be commended. It tends to destroy their self-respect and to render them detain. The students should understand that it is not their business to supervise the morals or manners of professors, except in the class-room. If the professors are made to feel that they themselves are the arbiters of their own actions, and that they are looked upon by the students as gentlemen and scholars, a higher tone will soon begin to prevail among them. Acts of disorder-such as the "marking down...
...will not detain you with an account of the uninteresting journey from Saug Centre to Boston, except to tell you that Mrs. Butterfield told me after the journey was over that she should never wear her black "alpaca" again to travel in. On their arrival in Boston they were met at the station by Mrs. De Sorosis and her niece Asphyxia, and escorted thence to the home of Mrs. De Sorosis at the South...