Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Corporation, perhaps I can express their views. In the first place they considered the scrap a brutal proceeding, one that was thoroughly inappropriate for Class Day which is a fete day when there are a crowd of ladies present. Of course it is easy to say let us not allow the ladies to be present at the Tree, but let us keep the scrap. The answer to this is that Class Day is ladies' day and that we most of us would not know what to do with our mothers and sisters while we were at the Tree. There...
...weakness of the Freshman team was most apparent in their batting, for only one hit was secured throughout the game. Foster struck out five men in the first two innings and did not allow a single hit. Four of their five runs the Freshmen scored off Dill in the last inning when Putnam made a three-base hit. Robinson, who reached first all three times at bat, twice on balls and once on an error, scored two of the Freshmen's runs; he also showed considerable skill in stealing bases...
...view of the dullness entailed by these forced changes, and in order again to restore to the exercises the lively interest occasioned by a real scrap, the committee applied to the Corporation to allow the flowers to be raised again and the Seniors to wear sweaters. The request was refused and the committee was told that the exercises, if continued at the old place, would have to be held under exactly the same conditions as last year. The committee was also told by members of the Corporation that, on account of the rapidly increasing size of the classes...
...president of the H. D. A., who laid it before the committee. The committee feeling that such a regulation would entail great inconvenience, protested against the vote and proposed a compromise. The Corporation, convinced that a news stand in the Memorial Transept was eminently unfitting, refused to allow its continuance, but gave their consent to the arrangement which the committee have today made public. To wit:- that the Dining Association take the responsibility of the sale of papers; that the base of supplies be out of sight down stairs; that two boys be employed to sell the papers...
...been the aim of the committee to make the building as lasting, convenient and serviceable as the funds at their disposal would allow...