Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...recent lecture the Professor of the Fine Arts informed the members of his elective that he should not require them to hand in their blank books previous to the examination, and that he should request the Faculty to allow him to dispense with proctors during the examination. These remarks, coming as they did from an instructor who has always shown himself exceptionally kind and considerate in his relations to the students, as well within the recitation-room as without it, were welcomed by many as a sign that some members of the Faculty, at any rate, while desiring to raise...
Again, it being presupposed that we are not as simple in our conversation as a Memorial lunch, if we tell the truth we are supposed to mean much more than we really say, and so really and knowingly allow a falsehood to be inferred. As a matter of fact, the only way to convince certain people of the truth of a statement, as is well known, is to violently affirm the contrary...
...order to allow persons to infer the truth we must often "prevaricate." And when the advantage is undoubted we are perfectly justified...
...CRIMSON, - Will you allow me to intrude upon your space to propose a question upon which there seems to have been hitherto but little dispute, owing to the indifferent light in which the majority of the students are wont to regard...
...mistaken conceptions. From the nature of the subject, or from its treatment, very few would judge the article referred to to be burlesque, because it is the very essence of a burlesque that the subject be familiar. That this subject is in any sense so familiar as to allow it to be burlesqued is inadmissible...