Word: afford
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...make tennis a major sport? In what better way can the desire of both Faculty and undergraduates to create more participation in athletics be satisfied? Men would be interested in something which would afford them pleasure and exercise during their whole lives. Nothing so inspires a man to work for a team as the hope of reward in the form of a straight letter. The University has excellent facilities for playing. The four fields, Divinity, Jarvis, Holmes and Soldiers', if all properly cared for, could handle easily more than a hundred players every day. No vast new expense would...
...sophomore year he will be required to demonstrate by the range of his knowledge and ability that he is getting something worth while out of the college. And before he receives his degree he will have to undergo another general test to determine whether the college can afford to turn him out into the world as an educated...
...Review" should be of inestimable value. We need to discover the point of view of the opposition. The new magazine promises to show it to us without making it revolting. It must maintain its position at all costs, and must receive the recognition of the country. It promises to afford a meeting ground for ideas, and to promote discussion. It reminds us, at a time when the world seems too likely to forget, that, after all, it matters little whether we are conservatives or liberals so long as we are good conservatives and good liberals...
...addition, the program of instruction shows the liberalizing tendency of the University. While following the same general principles as at older institutions, the work is not so confined to one particular specialty. The electives, moreover, afford a chance to take some of the best cultural courses of the College. This allows a man to obtain a more general education than he could at an ordinary technical school...
...that buildings is already being outgrown. Another need of a large auditorium appears now, as it does annually, in the lack of a suitable place in which to hold the Commencement exercises, where more of the guests may witness them. Again, if an adequate auditorium were provided it would afford a better place for holding recitals of the University Musical Clubs...