Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pearson planned to appeal the verdict anyway, thought his phrase "casting a quizzical eye on" gave room for a lot of leeway...
Finally, such as move would add on more required course, further restricting the undergraduate's leeway in choosing his own educational path. It would be especially arduous on those who had to take a required course in Ouvrez la fenetre because they had not taken enough French in high school. The idea expressed in the CRIMSON's editorial that the College could force schools to give three years of modern languages by denying entrance to students not so prepared it illusory, as all the Deans in Harvard College will attest. such a unilateral rule would only deprive Harvard of desirable...
Confusion has arisen among the Masters because of the "discretionary" powers which they hold in the administering of the parietal rules. No one is quite sure how much leeway the Masters actually have. As Elliott Perkins, Master of Lowell and Secretary of the House-masters Council, said last night, "We just can't go off and say that all Saturdays are exceptions...
...faculty voted recently to extend the Saturday deadline from 8 to 11 p.m., but the Housemasters are still given leeway in administering the new parietal rules...
Terming the economies "purely temporary," Coolidge explained that only easily-replaceable staff members would be dismissed. In 1950 to '51 wages and salaries accounted for $139,000 and retirement funds and social security funds another $7,000 of the $224,000 budget, so there is little leeway for other economies besides reducing the exhibitions...