Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...separatist party contains but a very small proportion of the population. But at the instigation of the French government, it has been made to appear a vast popular movement. The party leader, Dorten, is in French pay. The party organizers are also subsidized. The French allow the scattered separatists free use of the railroads in order that they may assemble in what appears to be great popular demonstrations. They are given the protection of the French troops, while the German police are disarmed and even clubbed to death if they try to interfere...
...members of the University, will be run in two divisions. The first meet, on November 1, will be for the track events only. The field events will not be run off until the end of November. This postponement of the field events was made chiefly to allow men who are now playing football to participate in these events. Medals will be given by the H. A. A. in each event of the meet, which is open to all members of the University...
Princeton's recent decision to allow unlimited cuts to upper-classmen maintaining third group standing is a sign of the times. For some years Harvard has had its "Dean's List" and last spring it extended the unlimited cut privileges to all undergraduates in the courses of the third group--these "intended primarily for graduates". At Yale the perennial agitation about the chapel was fanned last year by demands for greater freedom in cutting. Plainly the educational world is moving away from the idea of education by compulsion and toward the idea of education by desire. And if once...
...apparently an outgrowth of the strong sentiment in the American Bankers' Association last year against branch banking; its alleged purpose was to strengthen the Reserve System. Such legislation is, however, distinctly dangerous to this very purpose, since national banks must compete with state banks, and if state charters allow more latitude than national, existing national banks will convert into state banks, as the Irving has recently done. The privilege of issuing banknotes yields so little profit to a national bank, that its surrender is not a serious consideration...
...Government decided to allow advertising on its postage stamps. The concession is to be granted to private companies, who must hand over to the Treasury 60% of their earnings, guarantee a yearly minimum, bind themselves to a three-year contract. An official bulletin invited firms to take advantage of the concession...