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Show Breakfast the Event for Which People Are Mostly on Time Studies in Punctuality Made in a College BREAKFAST is an attraction attrac-tion to which the average aver-age person is most often on time. To band and choir rehearsals re-hearsals he is late about half the time. Business appointments appoint-ments are met punctually about three-fourths of the time. These are not guesses or estimates. esti-mates. They are based on stopwatch stop-watch measures made secretly of the students at Eipon college by Dr. George J. Dudycha and the few members of the faculty, sworn to secrecy, whom he took into his confidence. con-fidence. The stop was kept hidden. Notes were made in code. In general, gen-eral, the peculiar behavior of a man who insisted on making notes at breakfast, at football games or entertainments en-tertainments as well as at class was dismissed without comment and with little notice by the students. Not only do the different situations situa-tions call for a more or less strict adherence to punctuality, but they also call for a greater or less amount of promptness or lateness, Dr. Dudycha found. Earliest of Entertainments The crowd gets together earliest at entertainments (where the best seats are at a premium?). They come fairly early to breakfast and vespers. They manage to get there just on time for an eight o'clock class or a business appointment. They are generally slightly late to extra-curricular activities. Nevertheless, despite all this variation va-riation in punctuality for specific situations, a significant association was found between an individual's promptness, or lack of it, on the different occasions. There really is a general trait of punctuality or of tardiness, Dr. Dudycha concludes in his report to the Archives of Psychology. Psy-chology. The laggard may not be late on all occasions, he may show up early for breakfast quite often, but still in general it may be said that he is chronically tardy. The punctual student is likely to be more intelligent than the ten o'clock o'-clock scholar. The less neurotic students and those who are more self-sufficient tend to be more punctual. |