Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...every hurdle. Page, of the U. of P., is, without doubt, the highest jumper in the college association, but if he refuses to enter, as is probable, Sherman, of Yale, will be a hard man to beat. Goodwin, Yale, '90, is another good man if his health will allow him to enter. She man also has a good chance to win a prize in the broad jump and pole-vault, although Robinson, Yale, '89, has an equal chance in the jump...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Allow me to protest through your columns against the unscrupulousness of some men who have the pretention of giving seminars and private instruction in branches which they know little about. Their principal victims are, of course, freshmen; and one case in particular has come to my notice of a graduate giving seminars in subjects which he was utterly unfit to teach. Now, such a man may think he is a very able fellow to be earning money in such ways, but to any candid mind he is a swindler. I speak of this simply to warn freshmen...
...scheme proposed was this-that the faculty should allow any club of students who should severally guarantee the club's honor and get a member of the faculty to be their sponsor, to have examinations without a proctor. This scheme, to my great surprise, found no one but its author to defend it. Men said that it would be hard to get many groups of a dozen or more men to go bail for each other's honors in this way; that certain groups of men might form such clubs for the express purpose of cheating; that a club honestly...
...England States, so that the manufactories will be developed to a large extent. The navigation of the Hudson is chiefly by tows, so that it is very important that the bridge will not interfere with the mode of transportation. The piers are 500 feet apart in order to allow these great tows to pass through easily. As the Hudson at Poughkeepsie is 70 feet deep and has a large mud deposit, it is necessary to lower a large cassion with double sides. This box is 100 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 60 feet high, and weighted with gravel. Through...
...development was hailed with cheers by the freshmen, who had complete possession of the upper gallery. The sophomores made a rush for the stage door, expecting to meet with no resistance in taking possession of the flag, but in this they were mistaken. The stage hands refused to allow them to enter, and it was some time before they had the flag down. It is said that the employees of the theatre were bribed by the freshmen. Some of the doves were captured by the sophomores and promptly killed...