Word: leniently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentlemanly tradition of the College is challenged. A long series of abuses of reading room privileges has provoked a very moderate protest, printed elsewhere, from the harassed Librarian. The disclosure of stealing, mutilation, and abuses of purposely lenient rules but repeats common knowledge; the student body is well aware that some users of the library are robbing the rest by mean and annoying practices. The whole gamut of petty crime, from defacement of pictures and pages to temporary removal or real theft, is traversed by a few, too inconsiderate of others and too greedy of their own convenience...
...trouble in Cambridge with the students on election night yet. So long as they have a permit to parade, we do not care how much they enjoy themselves, provided they keep within the bounds of reason. In dealing with students the police have always been inclined to be lenient rather than severe, but if it should be necessary for us to act, we will act promptly and forcefully...
...Nevertheless [here Editor Menck.en became uncharacteristically lenient], I believe they can still acquire it. But not by drawing up codes of ethics that most of their fellows laugh at, as a Congressman laughs at a gentleman. . . . There are dozens of papers in the U. S. that already show a determined effort to get out of the old slough. Any managing editor in the land, if he has the will, can carry his paper with them. ... Is the paper trifling, ill-informed, petty and unfair? Is its news full of transparent absurdities? Are its editorials ignorant and without sense...
...were posted Thursday and yesterday, after a delay of over a month since the ordinance was passed. The Cambridge police force had decided not to enforce the regulation until the signs were put up, end yesterday it was again decided, according to information obtained at Police Headquarters to be lenient, this time until the signs were all posted. Consequently, no arrests were made yesterday, but the officers have been instructed to make up for lost time by strict enforcement from...
Harvard men are only saved by a lenient police force from being arrested every time they drive their cars from Massachusetts Avenue down Linden or Plympton Streets to Mount Auburn Street or back to Massachusetts Avenue by way of Holyoke Street, it was announced yesterday by officials at the Cambridge City Hall...