Word: offseting
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...with the Advocate in regretting the action of the Faculty in requiring Seniors to get fifty per cent in every examination, and it has occurred to me that it is a subject worthy of notice in the Crimson also. I understand that this requisition is put upon Seniors to offset the privilege of voluntary attendance at recitations. The Faculty recognize the liability of a student's loafing through the first half of the year, failing on the Semi, and making it up at the Annual. This mode of procedure they intend to prevent by making fifty per cent the requisite...
...John Randolph's oratorical power offset by John Randolph's bodily weakness and debility...
...great wealth of Stephen Girard found its offset in his low and pitiable existence...