Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard should begin this cycle of improvement may puzzle many. But some place must. After all, there will always be enough colleges with standards adjusted to moderate abilities. At present, there are few, if any which allow sufficient scope to unusual ability. No particular glory attaches either to the one kind of university or to the other And as it happens, no changes have yet been made which severely tax the moderately capable at Harvard. But if some change is to be made, if there is to be progress in any one direction, that direction, according to every tradition...
...other hand" he continued, "closer inspection may prove that there is more to his viewpoint than we had at first imagined. I don't see any risk in either case, since these speakers merely present ideas. It seems to me there is much more reason to allow them to speak to a group of trained men than to permit them to talk on street-corners...
...believe we should let any person speak at Harvard, and drag their ideas out into the open. If you will not allow a man to speak it shows you are afraid of him. The thing to do is let them talk and subject them to criticism. I have never found that students were over-ready to accept everything that was said to them as true...
...suggested to retire Lyautey and allow Albert Sarraut, Minister of the Colonies in the Poincaré Cabinet, to succeed the soldier who has done so much to extend the French North African Empire. Marshall Lyautey has announced his intention of not resigning just yet. But politics are politics and something must be done for Sarraut, who has proclaimed his Intention of renouncing Parliamentary life after the next elections. It was reported that M. Sarraut had been offered the post of Governor-General of French Indo-China and of Ambassador at Washington, "both of-which he refused...
...hold Parliamentary elections on May 11-which will be just one week after the German Reichstag elections. As the attitude of the French electorate will largely depend on events in Germany, the eleventh will be most advantageous to Poincaré. A lapse of more than a week would allow a careful analysis of German returns. In a week much propaganda of alarmist complexion could be used to advantage by the Bloc National, of which M. Poincaré is the head. The date-Jeanne d'Arc Day-is also calculated to play upon the national pride of the French people...