Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : Will you permit me through your columns to urge those who have not yet subscribed to the University Crew to give as much as they can when called upon. The crew, by their victory of last year, certainly deserve the support of the college. This year, as those who saw the report of last year's treasurer may recall, the crew started in with a debt of nearly twelve hundred dollars, and I earnestly hope that this debt may be entirely cancelled, and the Boat Club left free from debt at the end of the year. Unless...
...through the liberality of patrons of American research. In concluding his report, the treasurer expressed the hope that some liberal patron of science would provide for an increase of the regular income of the museum; and also for an addition to the building, since the present accommodations would not permit of the exhibition of more than two-thirds of the collections...
...whether it be for law or art or invention. But these are few. Most of our young men have to choose that for which they seem most fit, or which lies nearest at hand. But the training for specialties is to be put off; life is too varied to permit of being all devoted to the study of one specialty. A wider range of knowledge should be entered upon and pursued until the last moment that can be spared from beginning the special training...
...clean score: First gent - "Madam, permit me to introduce my friend, who is not nearly the fool he looks." Second gent - "That is where my friend differs from me, madam. - [Tiger...
...class and not the other? What inconsistency is this! If Harvard's degree is supposed to connote a definite amount of religious training, represented mathematically by about two hundred and thirty doses of chapel and thirty of church, is it not an imposition upon the public to permit a considerable number to take her degree without any of this training received from the college itself and in many cases with none received at home - in hardly any case with any of a compulsory character received at home? Why are not the wishes of parents regarded in the matter of forced...