Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stated, referring to current selling of stocks to register losses for the reduction of federal income tax payments.--"The psychology of tax evasion is peculiar. Men scrupulously honest in money matters in general apparently feel no compunction about adopting any schemes which are legal which permit them to pay less taxes...
...successful development of a large body of men in earlier years would be much more satisfactory than a small number already excellently trained in a highly specialized sport upon entrance to college. It is unfortunate that the present financial status of many of the poorer schools will not permit such expansion, but it is not improbable that should the success of the policy of mass athletics in the universities be proven, the necessary funds would be forthcoming...
Could not the University permit the total of ten meals to be made up not only by a student's own meals but also by the meals of his guests? Then if a man has a guest at each meal he eats in a House, he needs only to be present five times a week in the dining room. His friends can either pay him for the meal they eat with him there, or else entertain him themselves at some other time. That leaves 16 meals a week to eat where he chooses or where he must...
...that there are approximately 200 men in the course. In reality there are only 160, so that your writer is rather wide of the mark. He is also rather misleading when he says that the thesis is due the week following the examination. This may be technically true, but permit me to state that the examination took place on December 9 and the thesis is due on December 20, giving a span of eleven days. Finally, your article describes a question on the examination as "covering one fourth of the time treated in the first half year." This statement...
...general merits of the question, there are a few things to be said for the dry side which must appeal to everyone who really wants to reach a sane conclusion. Unfortunately there are no Boston dailies except the Christian Science Monitor which will either tell the truth themselves or permit the truth to be told in their columns on this question. Harvard students at least ought to want to know the truth. Here are a few facts...