Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest to note that the department of Biology, an unlimited field of the usual type, has announced a general meeting for its members, to take place in the New Biological Institute. The purpose of this gathering is to enable the teachers and students to become acquainted, and to allow the undergraduates to inspect some of the research now in progress. The step is admittedly experimental, but its example may be of considerable importance in influencing others to follow...
...student has acquired these elements before his graduation The true appreciation of a literature must include the understanding and enjoyment of the work in the whole and of the literature in its historical and humanistic relations; the minutiae of the language can in themselves never give this appreciation. To allow men to count a knowledge of these minutiae in place of a genuine understanding of a literature confuses the purpose of the distribution requirement and omits from the required curriculum a prime essential of a college education...
...ought, I say we ought to allow foreigners to visit our country. We cannot discriminate according to the wishes of different classes...
...Christian girl named Mercia (Elissa Landi). This makes the vicious Empress Poppaea (Claudette Colbert) jealous. Marcus Superbus tries to persuade Mercia to become a pagan. He fails. Nero wants to forgive her for being a Christian but Poppaea, to save Marcus from what she considers a misalliance, refuses to allow it. Mercia goes to the lions first. Marcus follows her-not, as in the original story, because he has been converted, but for reasons of gallantry, which Director De Mille considered more affecting. As rewritten by Paramount's Scenarists Sidney Birchman and Waldemar Young, The Sign of the Cross...
Taking it for granted that they will continue to be segregated outside the Houses for the immediate future, one answer to the difficulty would be to allow them the privileges of the House libraries. By assigning them proportionately to each House library, the danger of having the nearest library's capacity overtaxed by crowding could be eliminated. While it is to be hoped that the future will see a complete revision of the present methods of dealing with dropped Freshmen, there should be some immediate change in their opportunities for study. Even though not all of them would take advantage...