Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their course is completed, how greatly they stand in need of just such courses as the old curriculum required and which would in no way have been irksome or unprofitable to them. If we could keep before our mind's eye some definite set of subjects which ought to afford a broad, liberal education, such perhaps as a well-devised curriculum would show, and subtract from and add to it certain courses, according to our personal requirements, we should be more certain of attaining our end here than we are by the manner in which many...
...inducement as a profession to the young men of America. It is a most uncertain career, if, indeed it may be called a career. We have had few men and we have fewer now, who have made politics their life work. The reason is that they could not afford...
...newly acquired liberty to spend to make their subscriptions disproportionate to their means. When so many claims in so many branches of athletics are presented at one time (as to the freshmen at the opening of the term) the aggregate becomes a sensible burden to parents who can barely afford the necessary cost of a college education. This, of course, could be met by fixing an absolute limit for such contributions, but on this point the fathers are likely to be as much at sea as their sons...
...side of caution than on the side of rashness. Secondly, there is no urgent need of an immediate acceptance of this responsibility. Thirdly, it is a question deserving far more consideration than we can give in the teeth of examinations. Moreover, our time is not money, and we can afford to wait. After the summer vacation, by all means let something be done, but not till then...
...cannot see that any harm will ensue from having bonfires in the yard upon great, occasions, yet can the college afford to make a universal principle of such action; for who shall say when the occasion warrants more than the usual firework display? Shall it be left to the judgment of the excited victors, or shall our noble conference committee post a bulletin to the effect that "If Harvard wins to-day the victory will be worthy of a huge bonfire." Yet we are undergraduates but once, and let us celebrate while we may. Surely the freshmen on Wednesday night...