Word: facto
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...compulsory for all students residing on Manhattan Island. Students living in the country and those having recitations at 9 A. M. are excused from attendance. Students are allowed "cuts" to the number of one-fourth of the total number of exercises. If this limit is exceeded, the student, ipso facto, ceases to be a candidate for a degree, and can only be excused from this penalty by vote of the faculty, and this not unless every absence is satisfactorily accounted for. The exercises consist of a portion of the Episcopal service, a chant, lesson, hymn, etc., and last about twenty...
...amateurs, and disfranchised themselves, so to speak. In other words, a long standing precedent becomes in effect a law. These facts being known to the Brown men previously to their engagement, refusing to accept their explanation would not have been in the "nature of an ex post facto law." Moreover, ex post facto laws relate only to criminal cases, and therefore can have no application to this one. We are sorry that "private reasons" forced the Brown men to join a professional club; but at the same time we think that this fact should have no influence on our delegates...