Word: lenient
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...those who are forced by the necessity of their affairs to take a few days off before they assume their duties at the training camp, Dean Yeomans, who impartially and fairly hears and decides each case on its merits, will no doubt be lenient...
...course will require hard work and sacrifice. Few things that are valuable or necessary in life are possible without toil and individual privation. The Faculty will be as lenient as possible in allowing men to alter their courses to meet the new demand. But the burden of work must fall upon each...
...German-American problem does not present so well-defined an issue. There are those who believe that President Wilson has been too lenient towards Great Britain and too severe in his treatment of Germany. And there are others who believe that the President has not been sympathetic enough towards the Allies, and not severe enough towards Germany. Strange to say, both parties are lined up behind Hughes, and apparently someone is being fooled. Probably it is the German-Americans who are being fooled, for Mr. Hughes is, after all, an American, and cannot be much in-sympathy with the things...
...very inexperienced, comparatively untutored in the rudiments of the game. With an exceptionally stiff schedule ahead, then, the problem confronting Coach Haughton last September was quickly to whip an eleven into shape and at the same time to drill fundamentals into a "green" squad. A kind Providence has proved lenient in keeping small the injured list, but the history of the season to date well shows the difficulties which the coaches have had to meet in handling the 1915 football problem...
...that a good reading knowledge of French or German is not highly desirable; I think that an educated man most decidedly should have such knowledge. But it is necessary to know very little French or German to be able to translate haltingly the few previously studied lines before the lenient instructor. Yet only such feeble knowledge is required by the existing oral examination...