Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...find them represented in the poets;" (b) "To deal with Greek religion honestly you must at once understand that this literal was in the mind of the general people as deeply rooted as ours in the legends of our own sacred book." 8. Why do the fine arts afford the best measure of civilization? 9. How far is technical skill a test of the excellence of a work of art? 10. The influence of Sebastian Bach on instrumental music. 11. The scope of descriptive or "programme" music...
...Library, the number of volumes added during the year is 14.558. The tables, showing the use of the books at Gore Hall, afford emphatic evidence of the increasing value of the library to members of the university. The reports of the director of the Physical Laboratory and of Mr. Alexander Agassiz, of the Zoological Museum, are specially interesting. The treasurer's report occupies a fifth of the pamphlet. The income for the departments dependent upon the college proper was $268,260.76; expenses, $266,307,33. The Divinity School also has a surplus, $271. - 17; but the Law School...
...than to give a parchment degree to thousands. Moreover, we must hear less of expediency and inexpediency. We must not be told that Harvard is afraid to take the stand for perfect religious freedom, because she fears unpopularity among certain classes. A church and a university can always afford to strive for the highest...
...priests; were they to attend any colleges in America they would probably go to the great Roman Catholic colleges, like Notre Dame, and Seton Hall; the English Canadians, on the other hand, are furious loyalists, affect a lofty scorn for the "States," and send their boys when they can afford it, to the great English universities. I think if the number of Canadians on the rolls at Cambridge and Oxford were noted, they would be found to equal fully the number of Californians in Harvard. Time, the great destroyer of prejudice alone, can turn our Canadian brothers to our colleges...
...founded is a very natural one. Almost every student looks back upon his college life with regret, remembering it as one of the pleasantest periods of his life. Anything that serves to remind him of this time is desirable and these different clubs, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. afford the best means of bringing about this result. While this seems perfectly natural in regard to college life, it does seem curious that there should be practically nothing which should remind us of our school-life. Many of us probably have some unpleasant recollections of school. Who has not? But he must...