Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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DEAR SIR:- Will you allow me to say a few words to you about a custom of the students on the playground...
...been to disallow privileges to religious organizations of one sect or another, on the ground that some of them must be wrong, and therefore all must be excluded. The rule has been, rather, that all should be given the use of the University buildings, in order to allow free play of opinion and contact of antagonistic ideas; all this to further Harvard's unending search after Truth. The sentiment has been that of tolerance: not the suppression of free discussion, but the promotion...
...suppose a race of men suddenly extemporized, would it be possible for them to have any poetry? In order to have that, we must allow time for the invention of music, then for the application of its laws to language, and, that done, of what subjects would the poets avail themselves? There would be love and war, or, if no deeds worth celebrating offered themselves (unhappily Horace's saying is sometimes reversed, and heroic men as often fail to the bard as the bard to them), there would only be love. I merely put the case as a comment...
...this if followed on true principles will react upon the character-will make us less tolerant of extravagance of mind, of loose statment, of inaccurate thought and of that faulty expression which is more often an indication of some or all of these than we are willing to allow...
...football team next fall to report daily for light practice which will consist in kicking, catching, passing and falling on the ball. The work is especially intended for men who intend to try for positions back of the line, and goal posts have been erected in order to allow practice at goal kicking. About twelve men are practicing daily for these positions...