Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Students who have taken this course will find great advantage in repeating it during a second year as an extra, if their time will permit...
...general use and frequent abuse of this excellent word render a word upon it very desirable. It is a term altogether too expressive to be cast aside; yet at the same time it will never do to permit it to be universally applied. A world full of scrubs would be a sorry world...
Such is the ideal scrub. Many a good fellow, whose purse will not permit him to choose his tailor, is wrongfully confounded with him. Many a man who swells with as much self-satisfaction as the fabulous frog is nearer to him than he ever imagined. Many approach him more or less nearly at one point or another, but a scrub is a perfect scrub only when he is physically, mentally, and morally in need of a good scrubbing...
...E.MESSRS. EDITORS, - I observed, in the last number of the Magenta, a vague hint about the possible formation of a general Whist Club after the recess. Permit me to say that there exists already in the Sophomore Class a Whist Club, which it is proposed to enlarge into a general club at the beginning of the next academic year. Since it is now rather late, on account of the pressure of the Semiannuals, to organize and establish another society, it would seem best to wait till next year; then, if the intention of the Sophomore Club holds good, men from...
...Library should be for. A student in history may want several works of, say, three volumes each, and make good use of them. At present he is limited to but three volumes, unless by special favor. If books are continually called for, it is obviously unjust to permit one man to monopolize them; but when almost all such books are retained now on the shelves, it would increase the benefits of the Library to make exceptions and encourage critical and careful investigation, which a few good men would not be slow to begin if they only had the necessary books...