Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening of the session, which in the past has been at the end of January, will be postponed in 1941 until February 10, to allow men uncertain as to whether they will be called in the January draft to clarify their position...
...attempt to obtain University permission to allow participation in the National Youth Administration here, a committee of Freshmen was a made up last night by G. Robert Stange '41, acting president of the Student Union...
...Another, whose numerical average for the year in Economics A was 86 per cent, got a final grade of "C plus; too many cuts." The printed regulation stretches to include both these extremes. Each course is free to make its own rules on the number of cuts it will allow its students to take, and each section man can more or less freely interpret those rules. This forces the student to experiment and see how much leeway he can take. He is told that he has "unlimited cuts, as long as his marks are kept up,"; but he usually finds...
...like Harvard over Yale." That's what eight out of thirteen of Boston's sports writers say. They allow the Crimson a total of sixteen touchdowns and one field goal to six touchdowns to the Bulldogs...
...Department respectively, both proclaim the need for general courses in medieval and modern history. These would not be so elementary as a Freshman course, nor so comprehensive as a graduate course, but they would cut across national boundaries and offer a comparative picture of whole periods. They would allow the student to trace the main cultural, political, and intellectual developments of these two periods, and specialize on any one country from that broad base. He would have to spend far less tutorial time plugging up gaps in his coverage, and would find himself free to do more work on historical...