Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...family connections. What is one to do with this tradition? Here at Harvard other traditions are heard, and then will come the discord, and so it will be necessary to sing a new and better song. The greatest benefit in college is to develope and strengthen the mind, to allow a new religion, of which the old was a root, to enter. If it is not in harmony with the old religion, look to see if there be not a discord in the old religion. Above all, these words of the text must be pondered on by those who come...
...Varsity Glee Club tonight should call out a large number of candidates. The Glee Club begins a new year with brighter prospects than it has ever had before. In former years there has been a drawback arising from a very possible refusal on the part of the faculty to allow the club to take a Western trip during the holidays. Consequently the club has occasionally been a trifle subject to the demoralization and lack of interest which are inevitable when there is no clearly defined purpose before the members. We do not mean to say that the Western trip...
...crew can leave Cambridge. It ought not to be hard to raise the money. As a matter of fact the class has given much less than its predecessors. Now is the time for the men to show that they possess a more generous spirit than the one which will allow the class and college to be disgraced for niggardly giving. We cannot believe that Ninety-four will let this chance go by of proving conclusively that she has as much pride in the good name of the college as have the rest of our undergraduates...
Judging from the action taken last year I feel safe in saying that the athletic committee will not allow the freshman crew to go to New London unless it has sufficient money to meet its expenses while there. This will call for about one thousand dollars. To meet this you now have less than one hundred dollars in cash. Of the surplus turned over to me by your football team you are entitled to five hundred dollars, so that it will be necessary for you to raise at least five hundred dollars between now and the time your crew wishes...
...Wednesday the faculty voted to allow courses in geology taken in the Summer school to be counted towards a degree...