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Word: allowables (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduate of today is gratised at the great measure of freedom which the college authorities now allow him. The effect of this freedom on the student is his assumption of a large share of the responsibility for his own education. And it is safe to predict that this freedom will be no less when the College celebrates its four-hundredth birthday. Harvard has had a brilliant past. These recent developments show that Harvard, aware of the great changes that are taking place in the society of which she is a part, is prepared, now as always, to furnish that Intellectual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDERGRADUATE SPEAKS ON COLLEGE LIFE | 9/25/1936 | See Source »

Turning to the often assailed "undergraduate freedom," he stated: "The undergraduate of today is gratified at the great measure of freedom which the college authorities now allow him. The effect of this freedom on the student is his assumption of a large share of the responsibility for his education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VIEWS ON PHASES OF HARVARD LIFE GIVEN BY UNDERGRADUATES | 9/18/1936 | See Source »

...pugilistic pundits. On the same program as the Canzoneri v. Ambers fight was one between the New York State Athletic Commission's nominee for world's featherweight champion, Mike Belloise, and England's Dave Crowley. It ended in the ninth round when the referee refused to allow Crowley's claim of foul, counted him out instead. Four nights before in Manhattan, fiery little Sixto Escobar of Puerto Rico improved his claim to the world's bantamweight title by forcing his opponent, Pittsburgh's Tony Marino, to stop after the 13th round, when both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Peewee Pundits | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...students are obliged to obtain library numbers in the delivery room which allow them to take out three books at one time for one month periods and to use the special libraries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World's Largest University Library Centers Around Widener-Half of 3,600,000 Volumes | 9/1/1936 | See Source »

...Coast Guard cutter Cayusa (which Ambassador Bowers used as a "Floating Embassy" before he went to Hendaye in France) and Generalissimo Franco's cruiser Almirante Cervera. As the Cayuga was taking refugees aboard at San Sebastian, the cruiser radioed: "We will open fire on you if you allow Government adherents to escape among the refugees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: The Republic v. The Republic | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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