Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regret to say, abused also, - but here we are getting on to old theme of complaints, and as visions of petitions, of selfish and noisy men in the reading-room, and of electric lights, et cetera, et cetera, come upon us, we lay aside our pen, and permit ourselves for once, at least, to think of what the library is, not of what it might...
...ready made. It is not so. Choice, like other human powers, needs practice for strength. Keep a boy from exercising his will during the formative period from eighteen to twenty-two, and you turn him into the world a child, when by years he should be a man. To permit choice is dangerous, but not to permit it is more dangerous. For building up a moral manhood, the very errors of choice are serviceable...
...state of things. The proprietors of these lockers do not occupy them themselves, they do not even take the trouble to lock them; and the result is that while many students are unable to obtain accommodations, there stand these lockers open and empty. The owners neither use them nor permit others to use them. Surely such a state of things is outrageous; and there ought to be some way to make those, who do not intend to use their lockers, give them up to men who would use them. On the other hand, men, who now hold lockers and intend...
...sonne John Harvard Clarke," and to property received from her former husband, John Elletson. These references with her name, as it appears at the end, give indisputable evidence of her three marriages. The following, the closing sentences of the will, is represented here as accurately as the type will permit...
...upper classes the subjects do not permit cramming of the same kind as that practiced with the classics. Hundreds of pages of history, philosophy, and physics must be read, and the men usually work alone, or at most in pairs. It is believed by some that it is poor policy to cram on the day preceding an examination, and after two or three days' work the last 24 hours should be passed without any time being given to the subject of the next day's ordeal. Few have the coolness or self-confidence required to pursue this policy. There...