Word: leeway
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...wide leeway in student planned programs actually results in a number of everspecialized, narrow-minded graduates, the fault for such an error does not necessarily lie with distribution formula. It functions only as a shell and is gauged to give each man an important role in his education. While some students may suffer from this responsibility, others can find the experience both maturing and challenging. The alternative, a system calling for more rigid prescription of the curriculum, might prove unsatisfactory and could turn instruction into a production line, the College into a factory. It seems impossible to stimulate 5000 minds...
...paper grades. Certainly such a concern may be deemed paradoxical when viewed in the light of the College's continued insistence on hour examinations for all undergraduates. The deteriorative influence of such exams on the undergraduate psychology is further compounded by the fact that students, minus the leeway of a reading period in which to review, find themselves, by and large, getting lower marks on hour exams than on finals, thus lowering their course grades...
...Nominating Committee left the five-name leeway so that a nominal percentage of the ballot could come from the class at large by petition...
...Greater leeway for Freshman sociability has been offered by Dean Leighton in the form of a liberalization of guest privileges in the Yard dorms after the game tomorrow, and for the evening meal at the Union Dining Hall...
Wages. Most industries and most companies have adequate leeway within which to grant substantial wage increases. These increases will have a direct effect in increasing consumer demand to the high levels needed. Substantial wage increases are good business for the country because capacity production means an active citizenry enjoying the benefits of democracy under our free enterprise system...