Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doubt owing in great degree to the fact that Harvard is near Boston, whose papers are influential and on the whole give very fair accounts of doings here, while Yale is represented at home by very provincial publications, and New York is just far enough away to allow the news to become mixed in transition. But we also think that our Yale friends are in themselves partly to blame. The News, at least, is frequently guilty of great exaggeration, and of occasional misstatements, and if these are allowed to happen at home, they cannot find much fault if deceptive reports...
...reported that the Glee Club will not assist the Cambridge Bicycle Club in their minstrel show, except so far as to allow them to use the Glee Club's rooms...
...satisfactory to learn that the Trustees of Girard College have decided not to allow its property in future to be used for bar-room purposes. However convenient it may be for the Faculty that the building of the college should be provided with a bar, it is nevertheless undesirable from the point of view of morality, as encouraging the vice of drinking among the students. Whether the students are allowed to imbibe at the college bar or not, the micing of gin-slings and brandy-smashes on the premises must of necessity by demoralizing in its effect. It is well...
...hands, there is little wonder that occasionally letters find their way into the wrong rooms. Besides, as we have said above, the letters are frequently misdirected. Now it is only right that every man, when such mistakes occur, should rectify them as soon as possible. Let no one allow a misdirected letter to lie for days on his desk, but let him return it immediately to the post office or to the person to whom it was written. We feel sure that a little care and promptness on the part of the students would prevent any annoyance from all such...
...copy left, perhaps by death, unused and uncherished. A continuation of the Lexicon, comprising the period from 1100 A. D. to the present, was in course of preparation in Prof. Sophocles' hands until within a few years, when infirmity arrested his zeal and he showed a disinclination to allow his friends to get it into type. A knowledge of the condition in which this work will be found to have been left win be awaited with interest...