Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...laboratory at the Botanical Garden has recently been equipped with a set of instruments which will permit a much more complete study of plant life than has yet been possible. The most interesting addition is a complicated piece of machinery for the purpose of determining the action of light and gravity on the growth of plants. A very powerful current of electricity has also been introduced into the laboratory in order to test the effect of electricity on plants. By means of a switch board, the current can be increased or diminished and the corresponding effects on plant growth...
...Shooting Club has ordered a Mangar trap from the Chamberlain Cartridge Company of Cleveland. The new trap will permit six men instead of four to shoot in a squad and will throw nearly fifty per cent more birds in an afternoon than the present arrangement of five expert traps...
...headed Final Candidates exhibits a similar result -- declining fortune for Harvard is followed twice by small losses and thrice by good gains, and rising fortune is followed once by a small loss, twice by small gains, and once by a large gain. The last four columns of the table permit a comparison between the entering classes at Harvard and those at Yale. In 1893 defeats and victories were even, and in the following academic year Harvard College lost twenty-six Freshmen and Yale college gained sixteen; the Lawrence Scientific School gained forty-six Freshmen and the Sheffield Scientific School gained...
...season. The Harvard team lacked its usual speed and unity, possibly owing to the absence of several of the regular men, and was able to win only by determined individual playing. Harvard did not follow the puck closely, and the forwards did not play in their positions enough to permit accurate passing. The best playing for the University was done by Winsor and Foster, and for Andover by Hodge, Dousman and Silleck...
...will permit me I will add a few words in support of the suggestion advanced in my letter of December...