Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matter of the occupation of the little room, there are now only three vacant tables in the main hall, and these are all near the door, and consequently so cold as to be very uncomfortable at this time of the year. As soon as the weather will permit, or as soon as vacancies occur in the main hall, the little room will be vacated. Those who occupy the room do not do so because of any partiality, and they understand that they will have to remove into the other hall as soon as circumstances will permit...
...seems to have been gradually failing. Last autumn we thought we would see if something could not be done to give the cricket interest a boom. Notices of various kinds were inserted in the college papers, the men were brought out to practice as regularly as the matter would permit, and challenges were sent to all the neighboring clubs. The fall season is necessarily short, as we do not get back until the first of October and cannot possibly play later than November 1st, and also, it invariably takes a week or more to get started. Still, last fall...
...recent exploits of our noted handits. Yet when we attempt to defend ourselves by pointing to the evidence of our higher civilization, we are confronted by the spectacle of our chief temple of learning housed in ancient barns and cramped and obstructed by the scantiness of resources which hardly permit it to assume the dignity of a common school...
...tell me any reason why the base ball team should be allowed to compete with professionals, and still retain its standing, while if an amateur athlete enters with a professional his standing as such is forever lost? If we were entirely to ignore professional assistance, why should we permit the teaching of boxing or fencing by such? No: the truth is, we wish everything under our charge, that we may learn exactly what moral influences are being brought to bear upon the student...
...directors of the Columbia Boat Club are empowered to refuse to permit the crew to row unless sufficient funds are raised within a stated time...