Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college President can stand by and allow his students to accustom themselves to excess, but what action can be take? At Princeton, Harvard and Yale, where drinking has perhaps declined, drunkenness has apparently increased. Yet what drinking is done is done under cover. At Harvard the authorities bestir themselves to action invariably expulsion when an undergraduate awakens in the morning to find his name in the papers. The test is avoidance of publicity...
...courtesy of the Japanese people, who still considered their guests first. The best illustration of this was the first night in the outskirts of Tokyo, where we herded on the lawn of a nobleman's house. No one knew who we were, but those wonderful people refused to allow any of us to sleep on the grass without some sort of covering. Where they found blankets and mats for us I cannot imagine, but we had to take them and were thankful, especially as several of the party were injured...
...enormous building which was a relic of its former prosperity. It had marble floors, and massive columns supporting a high arched roof. For hours I waited my turn at the crowded window. And when finally my turn came, all the money that that great bank was able to allow me amounted to less than two dollars...
...beliefs in a straightforward manner. But what is most encouraging of all is the feeling of the reader that the author has not taxed himself to the limit of endurance; that this book is only the beginning; and that Mr. Pulsifer has enough wisdom and restraint not to allow himself to be rushed into print until he himself is satisfied with his work...
...this evening's concert are still available, at $1.50 each, at the Glee Club office in the Music Building or at Amee Brothers' Bookstore in Brattle Square. The concert is open to all members of the University and to their guests and will be over in time to allow the audience to attend the Harvard-Yale dance at the Union...