Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brief, the new idea of which Harvard is so proud, is to allow students to attend classes in which they are not registered. The only objection we can think of is from the Treasurer's office, but it is reasonable to assume that if a student takes the trouble to attend a course for which he does not pay, he will emerge sooner or later with enough knowledge to make up for the financial loss. There is, as some may hint, the difficulty that there are no courses here which a student would voluntarily attend. But that...
United Static. The U. S. was invented before its roads and railroads. In the 18th century it made some sense to allow 13 months between the time of a Congressman's election and the day he had to reach the Capital and take his seat. But it makes small sense today, and the four months allowed the President and Vice President, from Election Day to March 4, are similarly unnecessary...
...style of the essays is sentimental, faintly whimsical, but is lacking in any real humor. But the book is perhaps suitable for a parlor table where its gay binding would add a note of colour and its very short essays allow you time to straighten your tie before welcoming your caller. If this be faint praise, let it be said that the another and his publishers could hardly have intended the book for anything more than the lightest of light reading...
...lover. They take up their abode on the heights of Montmartre, where in a brilliantly gay ceremony Louise is crowned queen of the quarter. One day the mother tells Louise that her father is gravely ill as the result of his daughters conduct, and humbly asks Julien to allow Louise to nurse her father for a few days. Julien consents. At home again, Louise learns that she was the victim of a ruse to separate her from her lover. She chafes at confinement until her father, beside, himself in the rage and disappointment, turns Louise out of his house, cursing...
...What baffles me is, how to get the message across. Where can one start? One cannot simply speak words into the Infinite, nor will the Law allow me to yell at him in the Georgian...