Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several years ago Harvard inaugurated the plan of suspending classes for two and a half weeks prior to the final examinations in each term, in order to allow students freedom for review and collateral reading in their courses. At that time much skepticism was, expressed by outsiders on the extent to which such a carte blanche could be given to the traditionally irresponsible undergraduate without danger of abuse. However, judging from the continuance of these "reading periods," as shown by the Harvard Catalogue, the plan has proved a success...
Some years ago a scientist announced that it was possible to cut the head from off the body and allow the intellect to exist without nourishment of any king. George Bernard Shaw thought the conceit a quaint one, it would save his getting dressed in the morning and allow him to exert his only important function unhampered, so he toyed idly with the idea in the columns of the London Times. Mr. Shaw is still at large. In direct antithesis we have Thomas Hardy, writing in the fullness of his fatalism "that thought is a disease of the flesh...
...Democratic chances were also enhanced by mutterings from Wisconsin where eight "Progressive" Republicans, under the leadership of cross-eyed, frock-coated little John Mandt Nelson, announced they would ditch their party on the organization vote unless G. O. P. leaders promised to relax the "gag rule" of debate and allow floor votes on pet insurgent measures. Even long-legged, grinning John Quillin Tilson, last year's Republican floor leader and now a -candidate for the G. O. P. Speakership, began to talk about "co- operation" between the parties in the next House "for the good of the country." The final...
International relations are too complicated to allow any nation to stand apart. War, as a result, is inevitable if secrecy and suspicion are to be the rules of international conduct. The only answer is to pursue the policy of frank, and open diplomacy...
...pointed out recently in a letter to the CRIMSON, Harvard is a private institution, and, allow me to add, owes its support primarily to those men who are investing money in it for an education. There have come to my attention this fall the cases of a few friends, seniors, who came to Cambridge after an enforced idleness that lasted the entire summer, while trying to raise their tuition for the last year. These men have worked their way from the University until they have reached the limit. They are now out of college. Would it, not be wiser...