Word: afford
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...members of the groups increase their understanding of affairs of current discussion in the press, but they will derive benefit from the informal association with the Faculty leaders who otherwise may enter but vaguely into their lives. In addition, the part which each may take in open discussion will afford a valuable sort of training to the individual. In fact, the profit received will be so well worth the time spent, that each member of the University who can possibly do so should arrange to enter one of the groups as soon as they are formed...
...herself, economically gainful; but they were in no sense morally valuable. It was, moreover, obvious that the situation in Europe would not permit either America or any other neutral permanently to profit by the misfortunes of her neighbors. No nation which, like Great Britain, has cultivated sea-power, can afford to sacrifice its content to the clamour of neutral exporters. That will mean initiative on both sides and, if as with Germany, initiative is translated into outrage, the inevitable consequences will be war. From this aspect, at least, America has nothing to gain by insisting upon the retention...
There is another point of importance. No nation cradled, as America was cradled, in idealism can afford to neglect the demands of trusteeship. The League of Nations calls upon her to be one of the guarantors of European civilization. She would be assuredly unworthy of her origins if she sacrificed that duty to selfish and possibly non-existent claims of her private interest...
...mathematical science," the University Aeronautical Society last Saturday submitted a petition to the Faculty asking that a course in aeronautics be instituted as an Engineering School or a regular college course. It was pointed out that frequent trips could be made to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which would afford exceptional opportunity for practical study...
...interest which the Freshman class is taking in managership competitions is woefully small. The usual number of men who have reported for either the Track or Hockey competitions shows how little the members of 1922 appreciate the educational value of these competitions and the exceptional opportunities they afford of getting in touch with the members of the class. A man who spends all his time on his studies never gets outside his own narrow sphere. His occupations are personal, selfish ones and he has no interest either in his own class or in the university. The experience of management cultivates...