Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School graduates who spend a year at the Business School before leaving Cambridge. Yale men are not so lucky, for they have no business School. The cooperative plan made Harvard in effect a mere crutch for them. It is no wonder that the scheme was dropped by mutual consent...
...following the publication of the Student Council Report, the Faculty Council passed laws forbidding scholarship holders to be "employed by a tutoring school without written consent." Recent investigations, however, have revealed flagrant infringements of this rule...
...Mexican War broke out. He was born out of wedlock and married in haste. He fell in love with smart, ambitious Jessie Benton, daughter of Missouri's great Senator, but she was only fifteen; he married her secretly two years later, before he had her father's consent...
...Jessica Lucy ("Decca") Freeman-Mitford, 19, second-youngest of the six beauteous daughters* of Baron Redesdale, scandalized her equally Tory family by joining Esmond. Fuming, Baron Redesdale made Decca a ward in chancery, thus making it illegal for any Englishman to marry her without the High Court's consent. Decca and Esmond cocked a long-distance snook, cried: "We both regard marriage mainly as a convenience. . . ." (Few months later they compromised with convention by getting married in a civil ceremony.) Last fortnight they arrived in Manhattan on their first visit to the U. S. Said Esmond Romilly last week...
...voted to "empower the Union Committee, with the advice and consent of the student Council representatives on Freshman affairs and the Secretary of the Union, to appoint members of the class to take charge of the various class activities...