Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Athletic Committee has requested me to say that if this game should be played it in no way establishes a precedent for games to be played between the upper classes of Yale and Harvard, as they probably will not again allow such a game to be played...
...well known in this neighborhood where they are quite common. Except when foraging for food, they remain under water, only coming to the surface about once in an hour to breathe. They are very persistent in attacking their prey, and when they have seized a fish, they will often allow themselves to be carried about for hours. They sometimes weigh as much as fifty pounds. The musk tortoise has similar habits but is smaller. The commonest variety is the painted turtle, which is found in every pond, and have the peculiarity of losing their shells every year. The box turtle...
...limited time did not allow Professor Hollis to go through the history of the whole war, but he may be able to continue the subject at another time. The lecture was illustrated by some interesting stereopticon views...
...faculty of Boston University has decided to allow work on the college papers to count as a certain number of hours toward graduation...
...whether the conditions might not be changed; whether boys might not in some way be taught to write English before they come to college. Reform in this direction has been begun. The most effective way of hastening it would be by greatly stiffening the entrance examination and refusing to allow an entrance condition in English. Such measures are more extreme, however, than Harvard can afford. They would result in dwarfing the freshman class and sending crowds of disappointed candidates to other less severe colleges. But out of the question though this would be, we believe that the exertion of Harvard...