Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seven days to the week I allow...
Recently an assistant in a large Comparative Literature course complacently remarked that he made himself as inaccessible as possible by posting no office hours except after classes and by refusing to allow a telephone in his lodgings. This man draws his salary from the Corporation for no other duties than correcting examination papers and advising students. His remark is evidence that he is in the wrong profession; his philosophy of teaching is all wrong. He is evading his duty. He is not a good teacher and never will be, if his remark is an accurate comment on his attitude toward...
...that natural feeling of imperfection that resides in youth demands official consultation on important academic problems, the student is confronted with the insuperable barrier that the vaunted inaccessibility of such men presents. It is only natural that men concerned with administrative problems must plot their time judiciously and can allow only small amounts of it to the students, but faculty members whose primary duties are teaching have no excuse for hiding. If the personal popularity of our young instructors is so overwhelming that they have no privacy, they might resort to eating onions to reduce the number of their callers...
Please do not allow your fine people to believe that we are all like that...
...Advocate has announced that it will act as preliminary judge, and select three Faculty members to act as final judges of the Harvard entries. All entries should be typewritten but stories written in longhand on one side of the paper will be accepted. Story reserves the right to allow reprints of any entries in short story anthologies...