Word: allowence
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...McCosh has also heard a rumor that morning prayers are to be discontinued at Harvard, and says: "If the Congregational churches in Massachusetts have the foresight and energy which I believe them to have, they will not allow a month to be passed without deliberation to be followed by action. If a college declares that it cannot do the work (the religious training of the students), surely the churches of Christ must undertake it for the youth of their own denominations...
...Goody did say something the next morning about "thim nasty empty bottles" - "nasty" to her, I fear, because they were empty - and the broken glass trodden into the carpet. And as I think the matter over, I remember that Jones said something about its not being right to allow somebody to go to bed alone; that somebody chased Jones around the room, and finally threw a boot at his head as he disappeared through the door. All this is a little misty; but what followed is much clearer. I remember I sank into an arm-chair by the fire with...
...interest in Base Ball for the Freshmen usually culminates in their annual match with Yale. These matches have for the lastfive years proved disastrous to us, and now it seems quite the fashion to tacitly allow that Yale will win the Freshman match, as a matter of course, and Harvard the University match...
...being able to secure it, rather than to take the chances of its being given up within a reasonable time. We therefore propose for consideration the expediency of placing a single jet, at least, in a position which shall throw a sufficient amount of light upon these papers to allow of their being read comfortably...