Word: leniently
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...that a good reading knowledge of French or German is not highly desirable; I think that an educated man most decidedly should have such knowledge. But it is necessary to know very little French or German to be able to translate haltingly the few previously studied lines before the lenient instructor. Yet only such feeble knowledge is required by the existing oral examination...
...nothing on earth which would call forth such protest as a manifestation of religious paternalism. Again and again the powers that be have calmed the world's fears of the Freshman Dormitories by disclaiming all intention of restricting their inmates; it is no time for even the most lenient of compulsory chapel requirements to be inaugurated, especially when the value of such requirements is a matter of doubt, and their importance becomes less and less as the problems of internal provement are solved...
...varied, and as violent tastes, as the comic supplements assure us are the first characteristic of the modern college man. So England made a law which compelled students to cover their rainbow costumes with a dark robe. Oxford obeyed for a time, but forgot the archaic regulations in more lenient times; Cambridge has always kept them religiously until very recently. Within the last few months the required wearing of the gowns during certain times of the day--even to the restaurant or the theatre--has become irksome, and the student bodies are trying as hard to have the old custom...
...tides them selves. Too often we confound wishing and willing, but wishing ends in nothing and willing ends in achievement. Because often wishing is not changed into willing there result so many broken vows and half-carried-out resolutions. Our vows are not serious enough; we are more lenient with ourselves than with others, and accept excuses for out broken resolutions that would never be accepted by others. From the Christian point of view a promise and an oath are identical, and a broken resolution and a broken promise are the same morally. The worst aspect of these broken resolutions...
These two verses represent the contrasted conditions of college and of the outside world. College life and college standards of judgment are lenient; those of the world are severe and strict. Nor is the reason for this hard to understand. Men in college, with no keen competition of the world's life to drive them apart and with countless ties of common associations to draw them together, naturally come to regard and to trust one another as friends: individual struggle is the characteristic of the life of the outside world; there is less common sympathy and forbearance there than among...