Word: afford
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Phillips Brooks House Association has issued a call for more books for the Text-Book Loan Library. Any contributions of books which their owners no longer care to keep will be welcome. The books will be loaned upon a small deposit to students who can not well afford to purchase them, and upon the return of each book all but five cents of the deposit will be refunded. More than 150 men made use of this library last year...
...time that issues be squarely faced. Mere resolutions of loyalty cannot conceal the selfish interest of the war-workers' strike. In dealing with this problem the Government cannot afford to pussy-foot. Complete control of our ship-yards may be the answer. It may even be necessary to utilize the draft to secure a full working force for each war industry. Men in Uncle Sam's khaki drawing $30 a month may find military discipline sufficient incentive to keep...
International night will be observed on next Saturday by the Cosmopolitan Clubs of the University and of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the Walker Memorial Building at M. I. T. The program, which will include a dance, will afford an opportunity for the foreign students of the two institutions to become acquainted. The entertainment will begin at 7.45 o'clock, and the time for stopping the dance, which will start at 9.15, has by special permission been extended till 12 o'clock...
...subject will never be given full justice until the inequality of our present Sunday laws has been reformed wherever inequality exists. As matters stand now, all those who can naturally afford to secure recreation on Sundays by motor trips, at country clubs and on private grounds are easily able to do so, but the less favored half of the community, including small boys, are held as offenders against the law if they play baseball even out of church hours. It is not a question of legalizing professional baseball on Sunday, but of giving all the people an equal chance...
...graduate from West Point, rise from the ranks, or secure preliminary training in some R. O. T. C. unit. The first of these is the privilege of very few, the second is an opportunity for every enlisted man, and the third, the logical course of those who can afford a college education. Although not everyone belongs to a training corps yet those who do are for the most part potential commanders. Since West Point is out of the question for the great majority, and since the element of chance rising from the ranks is considerable in the case...