Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Bowdoin crew has gone to Ithaca, and will row Cornell on the 18th. The crew will probably be the same that rowed the Boston Athletic Association May 30. Many Cornell men are said to expect to see a record broken. Cornell still refuses to allow Bowdoin to row in the three cornered race at New London...
...year of the five years' contract between Harvard and Yale and the railroad company. Yale has been anxious to take early steps towards a renewal of the old contract or towards getting a new one, but the Harvard boating authorities have held back because the University Treasurer will not allow the manager of the crew to speculate with the crew's funds. The present contract does not treat the college rowing associations at all fairly, as practically all the advantages of the big gathering go to the railroad and to the city...
...collegiate study is being rapidly recognized. The efforts of Harvard in that direction have been noticed, and there can be no doubt that the system of study at all the American colleges will be revised soon. Columbia hopes to accomplish the desired end in a similar manner. To allow seniors to take professional courses, which also count for the degree of A. B., as Columbia has just done, is a step which sooner or later will be taken at Harvard in addition to the others already proposed...
...Will you allow me to express my regret at the action of the mass meeting on Tuesday night? Such vacillation proves how little public opinion at Harvard is worth. As matters now stand the undergraduates say to any rowdy or ldiot who may happen to think that daubing red paint is funny: "Have your joke if you must; we will pass resolutions of indignation-but don't let those frighten you; for we will pay all the damages of your vandalism, but will not allow you to be molested." This, in effect, is what the meeting of Tuesday means. When...
...subscriptions to the Harvard fund were made on condition of the whole sum being raised by June 1. The committee, however, do not doubt that the subscribers will willingly allow the sums subscribed to stand over till the autumn, when they will doubtless be called for. But as a number of the subscribers are seniors, or students who may not be in Cambridge next autumn, the committee request such persons to send their subscriptions in cash or check to the chairman this month without further notice, on condition that the sums paid will be refounded in the autumn in case...