Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University cannot significantly cut back the number of student cars, it should at least make more room for them by urging the City Council to legalize overnight, alternate-side parking. This system would allow fire-trucks to pass and permit Cambridge to clean its streets when the mood strikes, and at the same time considerably ease the present situation. In the meantime, the University should stop taking it upon itself to enforce every night, regulations which the Cambridge police force ignores most of the year...
Parsons retires from department chairmanship this year to permit the office to rotate and to spend more time on writing and teaching. He stresses his desire to spend more time working with graduate students. While carrying one of the College's heaviest teaching loads, he constantly revises his old lectures and annually creates new courses. At the same time, he runs two informal graduate seminars each week. "Parsons has influenced more young men than any other sociologist," another professor believes. Comments upon his "disciples" rum from extreme comparisons to Marx's protagonists to hesitant admissions that "there is some element...
Father Halton actually said much worth pondering. For example: "Academic freedom at Princeton was founded on the postulate that there is a universal spiritual moral foundation on which the university rests. Within that agreement on the fundamental principles it was safe to permit and it was desirable to encourage dissent and dispute. Indeed, dissent is intelligible only when the framework of assent is sound...
...spite of all a teacher might do, these students set the tone of the class. Yet "they cannot be invited to leave school: the school will not permit it, the community would not approve, and the parents would strenuously object." As a result, educators have tended to turn their courses into entertainments in the vain effort to make learning seem as much fun as dancing or basketball. When that fails, they add more and more practical courses. But chances are, says Green, that if a student gets an F in English he will also get an F in shop...
Fashion trends for this summer will be as exotic as the Orient, as sleek as sheaths, as versatile as two-season designing will permit, and as fashionable as ever. Both women's and men's clothing will essentially follow convention, yet there will be twists of the bizarre...