Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Latin oration, of which a part is given in the Oberlin Review, may have sounded well enough when it was delivered, especially if it was spoken too fast to allow the audience to notice how strikingly English were the constructions, - and some of the words too; for instance, institutionibus...
...ALLOW me a little space to expostulate, not illnaturedly I hope, on a kind of Athletics that seems to be gaining ground very fast at Harvard. I mean to say Lawn Tennis. There are now four clubs, and perhaps five, that have come into existence here this year. These clubs are generally composed of eight members each; that is, we have now at Harvard from thirty to forty men who devote their leisure hours to Lawn Tennis. Many of these men were formerly seen on the river, forming part of the club fours and sixes; now they have deserted these...
THERE is some talk among those who have lately been refused entrance to the Glee Club of starting a new musical society called "The Sore-headed Nightingales." If it will occasionally allow itself to be heard, the S. H. N. will soon replace in popular favor the H. G. C., which has confined its melody thus far to a privileged few only...
...work with profit. To be sure, they have command of the Library, an invaluable aid to any student, and they have the advice of the teachers; but they are not yet able to work profitably without guidance, and the time of the teachers is too fully taken up to allow them to give much of it to graduates. If, then, a faculty can be formed, as is proposed, for the superintendence of post-graduate studies, the interest in such studies and the number taking them will be greatly increased...
...that in any case they would give offence, and no gentleman should give offence, - a principle the folly of which is exceeded only by its harmfulness. For, when principle is at stake, as in buying fraudulent examination-papers or talking ridiculously about getting drunk, unless we are to allow such breaches of decency to pass unnoticed, we have to give offence. The characteristic of the gentleman is to give no offence in matters about which morality has little or no concern. But against flippant talk about dishonorable and vicious acts it is his duty to express himself. Outside of college...