Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Although unheralded by a blast of trumpets the decision to allow Senior preference again in Holworthy, Hollis and Stoughton was really very important. Every year the question is thrashed out in the Corporation and every year more appeals and protests are necessary to convince these gentlemen of the advisability of permitting Seniors to have first call on these three dormitories. This winter it looked as if the class of 1909 was to be the last to enjoy this privilege, for the Corporation and Administrative Board were strongly opposed to the idea. Several members did not believe in class segregation...
...having all the classes live in separate dormitories, it is certain that the Senior class derives an immense amount of benefit and pleasure from rooming together in their last year; and we are glad to see that the Corporation is willing to undergo a certain amount of expense to allow them this privilege. Members of the Junior class will make no mistake in applying for rooms in the three dormitories for next year, as their predecessors in those buildings will assure them; and it is for them to show that the plan is so useful and successful that it would...
...diminution in these figures is not due, however, to the change in the rules alone. The men were better protected last fall than formerly and were required to wear their protections, and it was the policy of the season not to play a man in any way crippled or allow a man to continue playing to the point of exhaustion. These precautions combined with an improvement in the character of the game have eliminated a large proportion of the injuries, which have at times proved incriminating evidence against football...
...difference in his school course from that outlined by the college. Any changes which will simplify these prescriptions and make the requirements more easily adaptable to the work done in the schools are welcome. The recent revision of the regulations will be of assistance in this regard and will allow greater freedom in the work done in preparation for college, without having any effect on the prescribed standard set for admission...
...Famille Poisson" takes place in the time of Louis Fourteenth, and deals with a family of actors, father, son and grandson. The grandfather, who is a very old man, has renounced the stage and become infatuated over the subject of religion. He refuses to allow his grandson to go upon the stage and tries to turn him into a soldier. But the young man, who has wonderful dramatic genius, escapes from the army, deceives his family, deludes his grandfather, and by a clever trick takes his father's place on the stage of the Theatre Francais. After an outburst...