Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chief executive office of the State, by giving the degree of LL. D. to the man who happens to hold it at present. Thereupon the Journal raises this warning: 'There will be more than one will changed when Harvard College confers a degree upon Gov. Butler.' Will 'our university' allow itself to be bulldozed...
...last year. Mr. Jones deserves great credit, as a large part of the excellence of the speaking was due to his unaided efforts. We agree with the Crimson and Advocate that it is more just for all competitors to declaim in English, though the terms of the donation allow, in addition. Latin and Greek pieces. Though the speaking this year contained few pieces of a dramatic character, the fact that two pieces of this nature received prizes will probably lead, as the Crimson points out, to a greater variety in the programme next year. We do not agree entirely with...
...certain number of elective subjects can be presented as the equivalent of the present requirements. The committee declares its disapproval of the present system of groups of requirements and claims that the beginning made in changing the requisities for admission has been defective. "Paring down classics in order to allow room for a little more book knowledge of science, has proved mischievous. It deprives students who prefer classics of some of their proper fitting, and obliges those who lean towards science to cram on superficial primers in a way which is very unsatisfactory." What it proposes is to have...
...advice of his parents and instructors. If one who lacks only four or five months of citizenship is unable, with these aids, to make a wise choice for himself, the probabilities are that he is an imbecile, whose subsequent fate does not matter much. But even if we allow some weight to this argument it tells still more strongly against the required system. For if a man of 20 or over, with the united wisdom of friends, parents, and instructors to back him, cannot select a suitable course of study for himself how is it to be expected that...
...full particulars of the arrangement to be made in regard to the charges for marking courts, will be published soon. The Tennis Association moreover hopes that the following rules will enable much more use to be made of the courts than has been the case hitherto. The rules allow any member of the association to use a court provided a holder of the court does not wish to use it. Believing that the following rules will be a great improvement on the present lack of system and are as good as can at present be devised, the Tennis Association...