Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sophomore" or "Provisional Junior" will be qualified to vote for officers of the class to which he is. assigned and to engage in College activities. The only thing he will not be allowed to do in his first year will be to take part in intercollegiate sports, this being forbidden by an intercollegiate agreement...
...Custom house in Berlin we found that the importation of paper is forbidden. We spent an hour in preliminaries, visited the Commissioner, who issued a permit in fifteen minutes, and on the next ensuing week day spent a further hour and forty minutes, during which two men worked continuously on examination and classification of our samples and computation of duties. Our growing alarm was assuaged when we received a bill for a dollar and eighty cents -- in marks of course...
Fortunately a good track team does not depend on previous experience. The essential quality of a track athlete is not natural ability, but practice, persistence, and "sand". A Harvard track captain demonstrated this over ten years ago, when, after the Doctor had forbidden his running the hurdles, he learned to put the shot in the spring of his Junior year, and, by practicing all summer and fall, was able to win first place in the next Intercollegiate Meet. Of course not everyone can win the Intercollegiates in this way, even with infinite determination; but the story is a good example...
...refusing the $1,250,000 appropriation asked for the continuance of our aerial mail service, Congress has once more displayed characteriatle narrow mindedness. On the surface indication that the returns do not justify the experiment, present schedules are abandoned, further development is forbidden. Protest against such summary action has been duly forthcoming from those best informed aeronautically in the United States; President Wilson is in opposition to the move...
...teach students to think straight is the chief aim of colleges themselves. The institution which grasps this firmly will not be driven to interfere with academic freedom. Teachers cannot safely be forbidden to offer their own interpretation of facts, but they can and must be asked to make clear the distinction between the objective facts and the subjective interpretation. When this is done there is no risk of our institutions being turned into organs of propaganda in the social disputes of the present moment...