Word: leniently
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...this time the college office has been very lenient in dealing with men involved in these riots for fear of doing injustice to those who became unwillingly involved in the disturbance. The situation has now reached a point where the college office must act, not only to protect the University, but also the interests of the public. The University authorities, the Faculty, and the great majority of the student body, who look upon these childish disturbances as a nuisance to the public and to the Boston Elevated, will stand behind the College Office in any action they may take against...
...thing has been on this campus. Years ago, there were student members on the council in charge of discipline, but it was found that these members were incapable of using good judgment. They were inclined to be harsher than the faculty members, or else they wanted to be lenient with their own friends...
...enjoy copying exactly so-called models of solution such as are used in the course, but for one who likes to work out solutions of his own the penalty is swift and sure. Possibly Professor Norton, in whose charge the course will be this year, will be somewhat more lenient with his demands of solutions, and at any rate it is hoped that there will be a revision of the notes used in the course. Compiled as engineers would make notations on a drawing, the mass of material is difficult to assimilate and adds little to the interest...
...rail bond holders whose purchases are governed by law. The importance of these is great: over 50% of the total mutual savings bank deposits of the country are in New York. But life insurance companies are also enormous purchasers of rail bonds and, like commercial banks, are under more lenient laws qualifying their purchases.* In order for a rail bond to be legal for savings banks and trust funds the company must have earned its fixed charges one and one-half times in the fiscal year immediately preceding the purchase and in five out of the six preceding years...
...last April at which no impeachments were promised failed to budge him (TIME, May 4). The State deficit had passed the $3,000,000 mark, was bowling along toward $7,000,000 by the year's end. With tax collections off, only by hand-to-mouth borrowing from lenient bankers could the State keep its institutions halfway going. A serious crisis is anticipated in December when $6,000,000 in State obligations fall...