Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Gentlemen: Permit me through your columns, to voice a widespread feeling of dissatisfaction which exists among members of the Dining Association. The particular grievance giving rise to this feeling is one which all must have noticed, - the annoying delay in getting breakfast after Chapel...
...excused from Monday morning prayers and have not yet received their permit, are requested to call at the office at once and get them...
...enough to enter Harvard College, he is old enough to endure a recital that would be out of place in a Grammar school, and not be shocked; but the writer of this communication seems to have been offended at what is unavoidable and absolutely essential to education, and would permit his personal prejudice to stand in the way of what seems a just and impartial plan of instruction...
...some twenty men from the college are attending these lectures, and they find them interesting as well as instructive. It often happens that a man will submit to much more abuse from another than his inclination would allow were he not in ignorance of how far the law will permit him to go in redressing his wrongs...
...presumably by processes of evolution, is passing into something of a far worse nature. For the sake of euphemism, however, and that we may not run the risk of making any great mistakes, we will still continue to call this failure to return books to the library "carelessness," and permit those who may read this to give to the word as broad a meaning as they may see fit from the dictations of their own consciences. Carelessness, when it results in inconvenience to others, is in itself an offence of no slight magnitude; but when the carelessness, becomes intentional carelessness...