Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...culture as a Hottentot." In Dr. Flexner's scheme, one of the four fields of instruction is called aesthetics, and under this head comes the study of painting, sculpture, literature, and music. His plan is to give young people the power of appreciating art in its many forms and allow the creative ability to follow or develop naturally. The cultural side of this new plan is not wholly neglected, but approached by the single path of appreciation...
...custom of the University in not allowing undergraduate societies to secure speakers to address the Cambridge and Boston public in College buildings is understandable; but it has long been the policy of the Corporation to allow the undergraduates to have in College halls what speakers they will, provided the meetings are open only to members of the University. The Corporation has felt that the students ought to be thinking about the controversies of the day, and has recognized the desirability of allowing persons who in good faith bring a message to be invited by the student organizations, and of allowing...
...sometimes said that Harvard cannot allow propagandists to speak in College buildings because the University will then appear to be backing the speaker. But is this the case? Harvard has allowed Ian Hay to speak in Sanders. Nobody intimated that Harvard was, for that reason, pro-Ally. But when, the next month, Harvard excludes Mrs. Skeffington, the Boston Herald relates the incident on its front page with the statement that "it was generally understood among the students that the action of the College authorities was taken because of Mrs. Skeffington's supposed anti-British sentiments." There was also a foul...
...committee. Any men who are unable to see the committee during it regular office hours may get information about the dormitories from H. Robb '18, Claverly 19. Men who need any information on the subject should try to see the committee promptly at 4 o'clock in order to allow time for explanations and arrangements...
...been the traditional and iron-clad policy of the Corporation to allow no propagandist to speak in a College building. Mrs. Skeffington is considered a propagandist. In accordance with a rule established some years before she came to this country, a rule established entirely independent of Ireland or England or the war, the place of her address was shifted to the Union. The latter is the customary meeting place of the University, where all opinions may be voiced unofficially...