Word: sanctioned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...were tolling for the death of one of the most efficient servants the cause of Education ever had. The clash of our college bell ringing for recitations with the bells on the neighboring steeples jarred on the nerves of every student who had ever known the deceased. Giving their sanction to such inhumanity, how can our Faculty complain if young men today lack the spirit of courtesy, patriotism, and nobleness that our forefathers...
...formal resolutions, setting forth the dangers of their position, and the methods which they proposed to adopt to ward off starvation and death. There is a good deal of truth in this. We are so enamored of free institutions that we never like to do anything without the sanction of parliamentary forms. And when we find ourselves interested in any subject, instead of investigating it by ourselves, we look about for some kindred spirits, to gather together and vote that the subject is worth investigation. This is particularly noticeable in college. Independent action is altogether out of fashion, while organizations...
...seems appropriate to remind the present Seniors of their responsibility in the matter of voluntary recitations. Voluntary recitations must be regarded as still on trial, as they have not yet received the formal and permanent sanction of the authorities, and when it is remembered that this the second year of the trial will be held peculiarly decisive, it becomes the obvious duty of Seniors to avail themselves but sparingly of the privilege of cutting. Like the orator who spoke not to his audience but to posterity, the Seniors should feel the gravity of their position. It rests in great part...
...have received several communications in regard to the reform in Class-Day elections. Some dissatisfaction is expressed that the progress has been so small, and it is maintained that an injustice, formerly practised by a few, now receives the sanction of the whole class. In regard to a matter of this kind agitation is the one thing necessary to produce good results. We cannot hope to arrive at the golden age by any short cut, and much may be considered as accomplished in turning the attention of students to this glaring abuse...
...meat is a rarity, on feast days the tables overflow with it. Course after course of it is brought on, and the guests eat to satiety. So it is in the United States with wines. It is in consequence a matter of regret that people do not more generally sanction the use of wine on the table and at home. No longer than because it was unusual, or because it was said to be wicked, would people insist on taking too much...