Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Olum called attention to recent actions by other universities limiting academic freedom, chiefly at Chicago, where students are not allowed to criticize the administration directly, and at Ohio State, where a Marxist club was banned. Mentioning the refusal by the University to allow Earl Browder to use a lecture hall for a speech, he remarked that academic freedom was especially threatened during wartime...
...settings of sacred texts have in common, beside the absolute musical value, a respectful, sympathetic attitude towards the text. This attitude is no less religious, probably, in the Symphony of Psalms or the Beethoven Mass than in the music of the sixteenth century; it is merely different. If we allow that it is legitimate to take sacred texts like the mass and the psalms from the church service to the public concert, then we must adopt a broader, more general view of the significance of the text and the sort of setting which is appropriate...
...backboards on the Athletic Building floor was the convex type, much smaller than the regular board and slightly curved to allow a better view of the basket by a player shooting from the corner of the floor, while the other was the regulation size and shape...
...measure of the personal independence she was to demand, the young Queen refused point-blank to allow her Prime Minister to write her first public speech...
...healthier than the British, but this reputation rests more on circumstance than on conscious planning. Unlike the British, early Dutch colonizers were not discouraged from marrying native women and no social ostracism came to them or their half-caste children. Moreover, the Dutch have scrupulously refused to allow the slightest tampering with the natives' moral code, even going so far as to bar missionaries in some islands. But the native living standard is little, if any, higher than in similar British colonies. If the Dutch have experienced fewer revolts in The Indies than the British have in India...