Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...custom in German High schools. The great difficulty in this innovation lies in the matter of scholarships. If our professors have not sufficient insight to be able to judge of the merits of the students taking their courses, without having recourse to the percentage system, why let them keep it up for those men who are trying for scholarships. But against this it would be urged that it is wrong to make an isolated class of the scholarship men. Surely there can be no objection to having these men included in the general scale of classification as well...
...Let the faculty and the conference committee put their heads together in wise deliberation for weeks and months to come, they will have to decide on this or some very similar plan at the end of all their labors...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I wish to call the attention of the proctors to a few practical matters connected with the examinations. Let each man of you make sure, the day before the examinations begin, that both his shoes are quite free from squeak. If there is the least suspicion that the soles are stiff-jointed, pray soak them every night in oil or water, so that your presence in the room next morning may be as unsubstantial as possible...
...could be abolished also. Is there not much greater glory in the hard-earned victory of one well-trained team over another, than the overwhelming triumph of a team which has gained perfection in secrecy and lulled her adversary into over-confidence? We are not free from fault ourselves, - let us try to remove the mote from our own eye, and then congratulate our New Haven rival in extracting the weighty beam from hers...
...timed; especially, when this practice is allowed to become detrimental to the impartment of a critical knowledge of the said author's works. Short enough time is given in a half course to acquire even a superficial acquaintance with the best writings of our authors of this century; so let us not detract from that short time in order to give undue prominence to matters surely of little importance. When out of but two lectures allotted to a writer, nearly the whole of these two lectures is devoted to a review of all the petty incidents in this writer...