Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...scratch race-course in front of the boat house, was sufficiently broken up yesterday afternoon to allow members of the University crew to paddle about in pair-oared boats...
...omission of exhibition base-ball games between Yale and Harvard from the list as now arranged has caused some comment. President Mulvane said that the reason is that the faculty will only allow the nine cuts for the regular games. Some exhibition games may however be played just after commencement...
...very long, and require the full hour to finish them, even in a hasty manner. Students are very ready to take advantage of an instructor's tardiness, but think nothing of interrupting him in the midst of his lecture. An instructor would be justified, we think, in refusing to allow men to enter the lecture room after he had begun his talk. But allowance should be made for men who have courses which compel them to come from the Zoological Museum, as is the case with many sophomores who take Natural History 2 which comes the hour directly before...
...manager of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals in aid of the university crew, applied for permission to sell tickets for the New York performances publicly in that city, i. e. at certain well known and reputable places. This request was not granted, and the faculty committee even refused to allow the posting of notices in Cambridge stores stating that the theatricals would be given...
...class dinner. A committee is appointed by which all the necessary arrangements are made. A book is opened,- and then what happens? Out of the 250 juniors less than a fifth respond! Can eighty-six, after the reputation it has made for itself in its college career, afford to allow this class dinner fail through sheer indifference? We think not. We even venture to hope that, not 50 only, but 100 juniors will improve this opportunity to revive the smouldering sparks of class spirit which still glows among the dull ashes of "Harvard indifference...