Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...informed by Mayor Russell that four flags used in decoration on the route of the torchlight parade, are missing, and that it is desirous that every effort shall be made to recover them, insomuch as the owner of three of the flags is a poor man, and can ill afford such a loss, while the fourth flag is one which was carried throughout the war by a resident of the city, whose heirs naturally attach great importance to its possession. It is urged that if any undergraduate was led by the enthusiasm of the moment to carry off the flags...
Attention is called to the CRIMSON extra which has been published containing an official illustrated account minutely describing the torchlight demonstration. No student can afford to be without a complete file of the anniversary issues, these editions give a complete official account of the entire anniversary...
...first page of to day's issue. Cordial communication between professors and students is certainly to be desired, but it is well for the over-confident undergraduate to remember that very likely his conversation is not so instructive or intertaining to his favored professor that the latter can afford to give up all his time to the fathoming of the occult depth of that conversation which is thrown so lavishly both upon his working and his leisure hours...
...field immediately. '90 will labor under no such disadvantages with which '89 had to contend last year. In the first place, the prospect of a game with Yale should act as the greatest kind of an incentive for work, hard work and not fooling. Secondly, the 'varsity team will afford considerable practice, besides furnishing an innumerable number of "points," a great advantage to a raw eleven. Although the Yale eleven has had over a week's practice already, by steady application this gap will soon be overhauled...
...unclean thing. They seek for a career which will give them a livelihood; the only offer of politics is uncertainty. It is said that our political affairs are being controlled by the wealthy classes. If that is so, it is because only wealthy men, or men of means, can afford to devote their time to the public service. On the other hand, it is commonly said that the majority of Harvard students belong to wealthy families, and that they look upon politics as something beneath them. This is not true. Nineteen-twentieths of the students in Harvard must earn their...