Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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On the Saturday of the Brown game, which did not begin until 3 o'clock, there were 424 cuts, divided as follows: 1.30 o'clock lectures, 61; 12 o'clock, 70; 11 o'clock, 88; 10 o'clock, 134; 9 o'clock, 71.
It is impossible to say how many of these were cases of illness or of absence for legitimate reasons, but the average number of absences for illness does not exceed 30 per day. Consequently the interference with studies caused by the games seems to have been very considerable.
This wholsale cutting of lectures on the days of big games is one of the bad features of a football season. More than once in the past it has been used as an argument for the abolition of football and may be so used again. In order that the present...
"The Student Council wishes the undergraduates to realize that by cutting their lectures on the days of football games, they are furnishing one of the strongest arguments against football. Accordingly the Council urges men not to allow the football games to interfere with their attendance at lectures, either tomorrow or...
**MORNING PRAYER. Rev. Prof. P. M. Rhinelander. Subject: Purity, the way of insight. Appleton Chapel, 8.45 A. M.