Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Will you kindly allow me space for a few words touching the purposes and work of the Harvard Civil Service Reform Club, concerning which I have received many inquiries...
...doubt that the best place to supply this need would be Holden Chapel, since it has no adjoining rooms, and is not used by any other department. If the Y. M. C. A. could find it convenient to transfer its reading room to some other place, and allow Holden Chapel to be devoted to the cause of oratory, it would be doing a great service to those who intend to try for the Boylston Prizes and for Commencement parts...
...Camera Club are to be highly commended. The progress which the club has made in the last year is phenomenal. In many other ways besides this exhibit have energy, care and taste been shown. We hope that the officers of the club who will soon assume control will allow no step to be taken backward. The Camera Club has it in its power to become one of the well known institutions of the University. We can say with confidence, to the students who have not yet been to the exhibit, that a visit would well repay them...
...time is engaged in teaching a special subject is too much taken up with that to think about methods and general principles. Accordingly universities-are now beginning to take up the subject. Two years ago courses in pedagogy were first given here, and last year the faculty voted to allow them to count for a degree. They are intended for general students as well as for specialists, but of course a man who studies them for general knowledge would not take the advanced and detailed courses any more than a man studying physics for a broad education would take...
Eighteen colleges were represented at the annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes held in New York on Saturday. It was voted to allow a seven-foot run in the hammer throwing, to hold the preliminaries of the field events and the 440 yds. run in the morning, and to adopt new rules to govern bicycle races. The treasurer reported a balance of $15,000 in the treasury. H. M. Wheel-wright was elected president of the association...