Show Breal Breakfast fast the Event for Which People Are Mostly on Time Studies in Punctuality Male Made in in a College BREAKFAST T 1 is an attraction J. J O tion to which the average average average aver aver- age person is most often on time ime To band and choir rehearsals rehearsals re- re he is late about half hal the time Business appointments appointments appointments appoint appoint- ments are met punctually about three-fourths three of the time ime These are not guesses or esti esti- mates They are based on stopwatch stop stop- watch vatch measures made secretly of the students at Ripon college by Dr George J J. J Dudycha and the few members of the faculty sworn to secrecy whom he took into his con- con The stop was kept hidden Notes were made in code In general general genral gen- gen eral ral the peculiar behavior of a man who vho insisted on making notes at breakfast at football games o or entertainments en en- as well as asat at class was dismissed without comment and with little notice by the students Not only do the different situatIon situation situa- situa tion lons call for a more or less strict t. t adherence to punctuality but they also Iso call for n a grea greater ter or less amount mount of promptness or lateness Dr Dudycha found Earliest of Entertainments The crowd gets together earliest at t entertainments where the best seats eats are at a premium They come ome fairly early to io breakfast and vespers vespers They y manage to get there just on time for an eight o'clock lass class or a business appointment They ney are generally slightly late to to extra curricular a activities Nevertheless des despite i e. e all this variation va- va nation in punctuality for specific situations a significant association was vas found between an individuals individual's promptness or lack of ot it on the thed d different occasions There really Is s a general t trait ait of punctuality or orf ot of f tardiness Dr Dudycha concludes in n his report to the Archives of ot Psychology The laggard may not be beate belate belate late ate on all occasions he m may y show up early for tor breakfast quite often but jut still in general it may be said that hat ho is chronically tardy The punctual student Is likely to tobe tobe tobe be more intelligent than Hian the ten teno o'clock o'clock o clock lock scholar The less neurotic students and those who are more self self-s sufficient seLf tend end to be more punctuaL uaL |