Word: permitted
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Unlike this year's selection process, the new plan would permit freshmen to House preferences without requiring them to give a "substantial reason." It gives the Master some power over the selection of freshmen who name his House as one of their choices...
...more sensible and efficient system would permit all students, upon display of student identification, to avoid the tax while purchasing books in general. The distinction between "required" and "non-required" books is silly; students should be encouraged to read as widely as possible. Books needed for research or for audited courses do not fit the "required" category, yet students deciding on the margin whether or not to purchase such books not be discouraged from doing...
...difficulties-"not in an official capacity, but as a friend of the boy's dad." A few days later Captain Robert S. Hayes, head of the language department, ordered Ponder to conform to the flunk quota. Ponder refused: "I won't do it. I won't permit it to be done." He was thereupon flunked as an unsatisfactory teacher; his contract lapses in June...
...Executive Committee of the Harvard Dramatic Club voted two weeks ago to increase the number of plays performed on the Loeb main stage next year from eight to twelve. The Committee argued that this would permit more undergraduates to use the main stage facilities as actors, technicians, and directors. The Loeb has too long intimidated undergraduates, they said; most view it as the handsome plaything of a few near-professionals and theatrical geniuses. They insisted that directors and technicians who worked only on House productions should be given a chance to experiment with the main stage...
...story is a distillation of Texan political mores, which permit the closest of friends to castigate one another on the hustings and get drunk together when the votes are in. Though Governor John Bowden Connally Jr. considers Lyndon Baines Johnson his finest friend, he has leveled bitter criticism at the Johnson Administration of late. Connally's blasts began last month when the Justice Department ordered FBI agents to monitor a special 15-day voter registration period that followed the abolition of Texas' poll tax. Last week the state won a court fight against a U.S. attempt to extend...