A number of instructors have adopted the plan of not marking a student as present, if he comes into the recitation room later than five minutes after the hour. This plan certainly insures promptness in coming to recitations, and so relieves the instructors from the annoyance of men dropping in some time after the lecture or recitation has begun. But we wish to voice the great number of complaints that we have heard recently about the lack of co-operation on the part of many of the instructors in regard to this rule. Some keep men to long after the hour that it is impossible for them to get to their next recitation on time, especially, if their next recitation room is across the college yard. This happens frequently in the rooms at the back of Sever Hall where the college bell is not heard.
If this rule in regard to prompt attendance is to be so rigidly enforced would it not be well for all the instructors to bear it in mind and close their lectures on time.
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