Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...degree that the not output of a poor boy is probably less than in most New England colleges. At any rate, I have asked a large number of poor students why they came to expensive Harvard, and again and again I have received the reply, I could not afford to go elsewhere...
Columbia sophomores have not created any disturbance this year, as has been the custom in former years, and there is some talk among them of abolishing the annual cane rush. The sophomores claim that they can afford to abolish the custom, as they succeeded in vanquishing '89 in the several rushes last year...
...there a professorship is fairly well endowed, but the aggregate income of the college professorship funds is only about $30,000, while the annual payments to the instructors in the college is over $154,000. No one can doubt that if the alumni gave what they can well afford to give, and what they would probably be willing to give if they fully understood the facts, a fund could be accumulated which would yield an income sufficient to pay men like Professors Bowen, Child, Norton, Gibbs, Cooke, Dunbar, Peirce, Goodale, Shaler and Royce amounts nearly as large as they could...
...morrow the crew will row in the 17th of June regatta on the Charles. A number of other eights from the Bradford, Crescent and Union boat clubs will probably enter the race. This would afford college men an excellent opportunity for watching the crew before they leave for New London, and it is to be hoped that a number will be at the finish on the Beacon street wall. Friday's morning papers will probably tell the exact time when the boats start...
...Away with it all; give young men their heads; let them go to work without professional guidance and solve the problem as they best can by themselves! This is. however, the dictum of persons like ourselves who are no longer in the actual fight and can afford to assume an impartial and most wise attitude toward the contest, swayed as we are by considerations entirely different from those which met us when, boys in red and blue, we were of the battle...