Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...petition is being circulated among the graduates of Phillips Exeter Academy now in the freshman class, requesting the faculty to change the date of the Greek examination so as to permit their attendance at the centennial exercises...
...fact that the Princeton faculty, whose rules in regard to professional trainers are practically indentical with those in force at Harvard, has not deemed it inconsistent with the spirit of those rules to permit their Athletic Association to employ as trainer a man whom our own faculty deemed an improper person to exercise those functions at Harvard, is significant. We do not wish to indulge in captions criticism on the action of our athletic committee; but it certainly seems as though this action on the part of Princeton sustained the possibility of a doubt as to whether the action...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Permit me, through your columns, to thank those who have so courteously sent a prompt reply to my recent appeal for subscriptions to the University crew. These thanks, I regret very much to say, will not reach as many persons as I could have wished. Out of over two hundred and fifty blanks sent out by me but one hundred have been returned to date. Considering the fact that two hundred of these blanks were accompanied with stamped envelopes already addressed, the showing is a poor one. The freshmen, in particular, are very slow in answering this...
...Maine woods. The lumbermen refused to allow any of their number to take any liquor of any kind with them into the woods. It was a measure of self preservation. In the log drives the most perfect control of every faculty was necessary, and the lumbermen would not permit themselves to be at the mercy of any one man who might wish to indulge himself. He was obliged to sacrifice his own pleasure to the safety of the majority. All employers believe in shutting off their workmen from drinking. They know it is a bad thing for them. The same...
...prone to wrath whenever he does encounter opposition. The reviewer then objects to Prof. Sumner because "he has set himself the task of proving that an opinion generally entertained upon both sides of the Atlantic during all past time is entirely erroneous" and so on. Space would not permit (if inclination would) an extended review of this forty-page volume. As an instance of the exact position the reviewer holds, the following quotation may be taken: "How long," he laments, "how long will Harvard and Yale insist upon being the sleepy hollows of political economy, from which pupils emerge with...