Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Shaler expressed themselves at some length. The faculty desired, it was stated, that Harvard should be on even terms with the colleges with which she competed. There were three courses open to the college. Either it should allow the present system to be stretched to its full limit and permit professionalism to gain complete sway over our sports, or it should secure the co-operation of other colleges and abolish all intercourse with professionals, or finally the college should withdraw completely from inter-collegiate contests. Prof. White expressed himself as being strongly in favor of continuing such contests. President Eliot...
...learn from Mr. Robinson that the Princeton faculty will not permit the nine to play the customary exhibition game in Cambridge this year. We are sorry to be compelled to do away with an old established custom, and trust that the faculty will revoke their decision...
...your article of the 28th, in which you cite Canon Farrar's views in regard to the (socalled) English system of classical education, I trust that, with your usual courtesy and fairness and desire to furnish your readers correct information on the subjects discussed in your paper, you will permit me to offer a few brief remarks, that may tend to modify largely the conclusions that might be drawn from the extract you have given...
...justify the directors in starting the room on a limited scale, but not enough to ensure a thoroughly large and successful institution for the year. The room therefore will be started immediately, with such a list of papers and magazines as the present funds of the association will permit. The directors assisted by such others as have kindly agreed to assist them in their labor, have undertaken to make a canvass of the college to secure adequate support for the rooms. If a sufficient number be secured, as is hoped, it will be possible to have the room open evenings...
Those who engage coaches for the Thanksgiving game should remember that no coach will be allowed to drive through the Park without a permit. [News...