Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much reason to expect, the whole matter should not be slurred over and forgotten. The college authorities were responsible for the accident, and the narrow escape from something more serious should be a lesson to them which no amount of fortunate circumstances, nor any lapse of time, should allow them to forget...
Some one not acquainted with this too characteristic proceeding may ask why this state of affairs has been allowed? It is the now famous reply-Poverty. Poverty! when a hundred lives may be endangered for want of what a few dollars could buy. Such an excuse is unworthy of any weight. Let them procure the money by any means, but let them see to it that our death-traps be made decently safe. Not one of the gentlemen who represent the corporation would allow such a thing if he could personally help it, we are sure, and why then cannot...
...hope the faculty will consider this matter, and allow us to hire a suitable, respectable man, who will know his place, and understand his business...
...backs throughout the game. In the second three quarters the ball soon reached Harvard's territory, and stuck there with wonderful pertinacity. The only remarkable feature was the good catching of Burgess and rushing of Appleton and Hartley. Time was called in 25 minutes in order to allow the Pennsylvania men time to catch train. The only addition to the score in the second three quarters was a safety touchdown by Pennsylvania. The great result of this match must be in the shape of an exhortation by the entire college to the university to "brace up" before...
This is the manner in which the News talks to Yale '87 : "We must be allowed the privilege of informing the freshman class that the university foot-ball authorities will not allow them to play any game with Harvard unless they put in the field a team with some claim to a decent proficiency in the game. When other freshmen classes have sent thirty men to the park from the first of the season, the class of '87 has never at one time had more than six. Six men out of 170 ! When you entered this college you no doubt...