Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sebastian Kresge resented being indirectly referred to by a Methodist Episcopal clergyman as the devil, if he felt that ingratitude should forfeit charity, he did not allow his actions to express his feelings. Instead, he presented $725,000 to the Detroit Methodist Children's Home Society, with which to build an orphanage for small children. It was to be a new and charming orphanage, with small cottages instead of wards and corridors, with married couples, when possible, to act as father and mother to children who have none of their own. This gift was accepted like the other, with...
Seriously though, the experiment yesterday is highly to be commended. History to be really understood must almost be experienced. Time and dignity perhaps will not allow the full program outlined above, but still there is positive good to be derived from such expositions on a small scale. And even where this is not possible, many lectures could be greatly improved by laying greater stress on the creation of "atmosphere...
...opposed to a policy which will allow any State to determine for itself the alcoholic content of beverages to be manufactured, sold and transported throughout the country, but I believe the States should join with the officers of the United States in enforcing the laws of Congress, as was contemplated by the constitutional amendment...
...before the bands of Rotarians and Kiwanians with H. L. Mencken tied to a chariot wheel descend on the colleges to butcher the decadent inhabitants, it is only fair that the people be allowed, in the correct tradition, to stage some orgies. Unfortunately there exists the anomaly that the clerical calumniators who would naturally on such occasions be fed to other than literary lions, are keeping, the projected revellers tightly strapped to the stake. The materials for Bacchanalia cannot be obtained in sufficient amount, and the police would not allow Saturnalia. Before the destruction finally comes, then, the authorities must...
...trivial or superficial. Professor Mather believes that with the student's purpose definitely known and concentration excluded the curriculum could comprise an organized plan of survey course that would merit, in accordance with the European custom, a baccalaureate degree. And the high standards of such segregation would allow in the scholarship, free from extra-curricular activity, in the senior college would justify the granting of a degree of Master of Arts to its graduate. The baccalaureate given to graduates from Professor Mather's junior college, however, could not compare with the same degree given in the leading universities now. Although...