Show Breakfast the Event for Which People Are Arc Mostly l on Time Studies in Punctuality Made tule in a College T is an attraction BREAKFAST B 13 tion lion to which the average average average aver aver- age person is most often on time To band and choir rehearsals rehearsals rehearsals re re- he is late about half the time Business appointments appointments appointments appoint appoint- ments are met punctually about three three fourths fourths of the time These are not guesses or esti estl mates The They are based baled on stopwatch stop watch measures made secretly of the students at Ripon college b by Dr George Ceorge J J. J Dudycha and the few members of the faculty sworn worn to secrecy whom he took look into his con The stop was kept hidden Notes were made In code In gen lien general era eral the peculiar behavior of a man who Insisted on making notes at breakfast at football games or entertainments entertainments en os liS well as II at class was dismissed without comment and with little notice by the students Not only do the different situations situa Mons call for a more or less leu strict adherence to punctuality but the they also call fn for a 8 greater or less leu amount of promptness or lateness Dr Dudycha found I Earliest or of The crowd gets get together earliest at et entertainments where the best seats eats are arc at a premium They come ome airly early to breakfast and vespers They manage manace to get there Just on time for an eight o'clock class or a business bustness appointment The They are generally slightly late to extra extra curricular activities Nevertheless despite all this variation va vs nation In punctuality lit for specific situations a significant association was II found between on an Individuals Individual's promptness or lack of It on the different occasions There really is II a general trait of punctuality or of tardiness Dr Dudycha concludes In his report to the Archives of Pay Isy cholon The laggard lauard ma may not be belate belate belate late on all occasions occasion I. I he ma may show up early for breakfast quite often but still in general It IC ma may be said ald that he is chronically tard tardy The punctual student Is likely to tobe tobe tobe be more Intelligent than the ten o'clock o 0 o'clock clock scholar The less leIs neurotic students and those who are more sufficient self tend to be more punctual |