Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...moment's kindly thought. The entire college is indebted to the senior class for the pleasant features of class day, whether any one person cares to enjoy them or not, and the only way in which to repay this kindness is for all those who possess desirable quarters to permit of their being used when they are needed. It is very seldom that any damage whatever is done to a room, but if there should be, we feel sure that the gentlemen who use the rooms will see that everything is made right with the owner. This...
...past year, had there been no trouble with the launch (kindly loaned us by Prof. Agassiz) at New London, which necessitated the sending of our own launch there. As the items in these accounts are sufficiently clear, I shall not encroach upon your space further, by enlarging on them. Permit me again, through your columns, to thank all those who so kindly assisted me last year. My very particular thanks are due to Mr. Guy Waring, the treasurer of 1881-1882, for his frequent assistance and invaluable advice, and it gives me great pleasure to testify to his interest...
...shop of the machinist, the joiner, the furniture maker, the stonecutter, is no longer remote. One of the highest college-bred men of the present time is Prof. Huxley, and one of the strongest advocates of college and university training for all whose opportunities and means will permit them to enjoy it. He counts himself, and actually is, pre-eminently a handicraftsman whose life is mainly spent in his workshop, and his writings and addresses are what he learns from his own work. As civilization generally has advanced, so that society has been willing to accord a true value...
...entirely misunderstands Harvard's position on the subject of playing with professional ball nines. It says editorially : "The discussion of the whole question of college athletics, which the action of Princeton-Harvard has raised, has proved too clearly the fatuity of any regulations which tend to suppress them to permit such regulations to be long in operation." It is not a fact that the Harvard or Princeton faculties have endeavored to suppress athletics at their respective colleges. What they did try to do was to endeavor to draw a line between gentlemen who play base-ball for sport and professionals...
Crocker, who will take right field as soon as his lame ankle will permit, has made a good record as captain. He is a good fielder and catcher. He bats well and is a fast base runner...