Word: let
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...tried another door, and was let in. "Good evening. I am come to ask you whether you would subscribe to the Crimson," and, mindful of my first visit, added an explanation. "It is one of the college papers you know. I have just received eight subscription from your classmates over...
...which are full of the most unwarranted attacks on Yale and Harvard. It would, perhaps, be better to treat his remarks with the silent contempt they deserve, but we feel that it is of the utmost importance to preserve kindly feeling between the two colleges, and therefore we cannot let it pass unnoticed. That this gentleman expresses the opinions of his college in the matter we do not believe, and yet it is singular that he should have been allowed to go on writing to the "Spirit" for the last month uncontradicted, if his sentiments were opposed to those...
...instead of by prayers. He tells us of one case where the prayer-meeting actually broke up after only two prayers! and of another "in which the speaker made a long argument for conversion when every one of his hearers had already been converted and was an active Christian." Let us hope that these glaring abuses will be done away with in future...
...assign a mark to each forensic and hand it back to the writer, giving in the class an abstract of what was written on each of the subjects. A student cannot find out what mark has been given him, nor are there any remarks on the returned forensic to let him know what impression it has produced on the instructor, whether he considers it good, bad or indifferent. Now we have no fault to find with the present instructor, for he does all that anybody in his position could do, but we wish to call the attention of the Faculty...
...Memorial Hall. Threats and entreaties hitherto have been equally useless; "the windows cannot be opened during meal-time without making too great a draught," or "the hall has been sufficiently ventilated in the morning." We are not rash, but if something is not done soon to let in a little fresh air, we shall be inclined to come to dinner with several stones in our pockets, and quietly proceed to do our own ventilating by breaking a few panes of glass...