Word: allow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, after boosting TIME as a good paper for boys and girls to read, you dig up an old ditty that Bismark's sister used to sing in which Satan swears (TIME, Feb. 22, p. 11) and now (TIME, March 29, p. 38) you allow an "adder" to leave a shot of poison in the form of a witty, unforgettable coined word where youth will ran into it head...
...neither is any community of same and sophisticated people ever sufficiently broad minded to allow, without some kind of stone throwing, the importunities of the moral emotionalist. And that is exactly what the leader of the Watch and Ward Society must be, in the light of his words. Nor is he completely damned by so being. Such people may sometime enjoy their Miltonesque heaven where the inhibitions of today become the exhibitions of a celestial tomorrow, and one can play on the harps of a divine reward while less consistent devotees of moral restraint suffer a punishment entirely fitting...
...have little to chagrin them in the more sensational sentiments of their supposedly more radical and more progressive contemporaries. The plan which Dr. Meiklejohn suggests is, in a sense, a part of the proposed, and in some respects, of the already functioning Harvard system That Harvard is content to allow lectures to continue while she undertakes the tutorial policy is characteristic, and in that sense, good. Not possessed of any sanguine faith in the impossible, but ready to conform to the needs of the passing years in so far as those needs do not encroach upon her function...
...plan does not particularly help. Uncertain as to his proper concentration, interested in multifarious activities necessary to his development, he does not have sufficient time in his sophomore and junior years to gain a sufficiently comprehensive understanding of such a field, for instance, as English literature. Though the plan allows him to become a candidate for distinction in his senior year, to do practically what is done under the present system, it does not save him from losing those delights of a cultural and intellectual nature which a less strenuous senior year would allow. Thus it is evident that, though...
...next year is Harvard to divide in the manner suggested. Such processes like all lasting ones must be, of necessity, slow. But the start has been made already, and not alone in the brains of undergraduates or faculty. For years there has been a definite policy at Harvard to allow smaller colleges to exist under the university. The only novelty in the particular plan is that Harvard College itself would be divided for the sake of cultured efficiency which is perhaps a paradox, yet certainly a truth. And when the good to be gained from such division is as patent...