Word: lenient
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...with reference to the crews running upon North avenue. There is a tendency for the men to be careless about ordinary pedestrians, and to come to feel that they themselves have the right of way. There is some reason for this; not a few Cambridge people are so lenient in their admiration for youthful strength and dash, that they do not mind scurrying to one side of the walk, and, in muddy weather, of being generally bespattered. But for every one who does not object to this sort of thing there are probably two who do object, and object strongly...
...very poor and unsatisfactory ending to the season's work for both Princeton and Harvard. As this is the first and last chance for our freshmen to measure their strength with the Princeton freshmen, we would add our earnest request to the Athletic Committee to be a little lenient in this case and sanction, if called upon. an arrangement for a third game...
...made the Irish question the chief question in English politics; Nation, Oct. 15, '91. - (d) He converted the Liberal party to the Irish cause; Handbook of Home Rule, p. 52; McCarthy's Ireland's Cause, etc., p. 99. - (e) To this policy of obstruction is due the lenient Irish policy of the present Conservative Government...
...subject. Knowledge of economic literature is, however, necessary to a full comprehension of most of the insurrections and revolutions of history; and since sin came into the world there has been no more prolific source of popular discontent than abusive taxation, The systems of taxation in China are extremely lenient and simple and this state of things is probably the foundation of the internal peace and content that has so long reigned in that country. The complicated and grinding tax system sowed the seeds of decay in ancient Rome, a fact upon which few historians have laid much stress...