Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences has recently voted to allow candidates for admission to the College to divide their entrance examinations into more than two groups, when this extra division is recommended by a responsible teacher. This change is largely the result of recommendations of Dean Briggs and of the efforts of the Harvard Teachers' Association. It will not in any way lessen the amount of work required for entrance, but will tend to make admissions easier for candidates who have not been able to prepare in the usual...
...past, every candidate has been obliged to take his examinations in two groups, the preliminary and final, but in the future the chairman on admission will allow candidates to divide their preliminary or final examinations between June and September of the same year, or to postpone part of either group until the next year when this further division is deemed necessary. Candidates who have prepared in the usual way will, however, take the examinations in two groups as heretofore...
...University Debating Club received a challenge Saturday from Brown, proposing that a debate be held between the two universities in the early part of May. Brown agrees to allow Harvard both the selection of the question and the choice of sides. The one condition attached is that the Harvard team shall be the same as the one that debates against Princeton or Yale. No action has yet been taken on the challenge...
...Will you allow a graduate, one who was a member of the Glee Club in the prehistoric times of "Western Trips," to venture this observation? -- that the musical club men whose concerts now delight hundreds or, I may say, thousands of their fellow-members at the Union's Tuesday evening meetings are filling a more natural, a healthier and on the whole a jollier place in college life than their predecessors of a decade ago, who toured the country in competition with a dozen other colleges, or gave "benefits" under the auspices of Masonic organizations in neighboring suburbs, and whose...
...view of the discussion started by Mr. Storrow's advocacy of a change in the length of the race with Yale, will you allow me to present the following considerations...