Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...enliven the "warnings and rules." Dr. Hale said, prepare yourself carefully before hand on what you are going to say but don't memorize. Don't try to win the sympathy of the audience by talking about yourself. Know what you are going to say and don't allow the sympathy of your audience to lead you further than you should go. Partly as a rule and partly as a warning, for your own sake and for the sake of your audience, make up your mind how long you are going to speak, and low much time you wish...
DEAR SIRS: - Will you allow me to call the attention of your readers to what seems to be a truly exceptional chance of becoming acquainted with some of Ibson's masterpieces, As is well known, the first great successes of Ibson's works, outside of his native country, were achieved in Germany. For years the poet himself has been living in Munich, in closest touch with the literary and artistic life of the Bavarian capital; and the best of his dramas have long since become household works of all the great German theatres. One of Ibson's personal friends...
...lessons which ought to have been forced on the team by the Amherst, Technology and Cornell games, Harvard's defensive play seems to have fallen off rather than improved. The line men did not show the slightest ability to break through, and time and time again they would allow themselves to be dragged along three or four yards by the men whom they had tackled. Whenever the Athletic Association got the ball they would batter down the Harvard guards and tackles and push the ball steadily down the field, and if Harvard did stop them on four downs...
...many in the University already know, a portion of the Soldiers Field has been prepared for secret practice of the eleven. A fence eight feet high on three sides, and twelve on the Cambridge side, has been built about a levelled space, large enough to allow a strip of ground fifteen feet wide outside of each boundery. Every crack and hole in the fence is to be filled, so that it will be impossible to see from without. The field will be marked out before Thursday when practice there will begin. Until late in the season however, the eleven will...
...repeal of the present tax would open the way to the best currency obtainable, - (a) It would allow the establishment of State Banks. (b) State banks would furnish the best currency. - (1) The present legal tenders are a burden aad menace: C. F. Adams, Chapters of Erie. (2) The issues by state banks would be more flexible and responsive: Cong. Rec. pp. 5577-8; Forum...