Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...formed on Fresh Pond sufficiently strong to afford good skating...
...that the students as individuals are asked to do to bring about this state of affairs which they desire, is to meet the can vassers of the association half way in their appeal for money. It is an enterprise toward which everyone, no matter what his means are, can afford to give some thing. No one can say in this case that he cannot afford to put his hand in his pocket to pay for the support of a team on which he can never hope to play. The money is needed for no such purpose. But is to provide...
...entering a certain room he drew back and said, "Gentlemen, I have found darkness at last, I cannot help you, but give me but a mere candle, and I will disclose to you all the mysteries of this truly dark place." "Alas! We cannot afford it," cried the great men of the city, and for all I know the mysteries of that building are unsolved today...
Harvard can ill afford to abandon a game the esthetic possibilities of which are so great as those of foot ball. If the Harvard Athletic Committee will but think of the pleasing combinations of color and the artistic roupangs possible in a game of foot ball, and instead of shuddering at it as a "brutal prize fight," consider it in the light of a "study in orange and black," or a "symphony in blue and crimson," we feel confident that they will withdraw their objections and let it live.-[Courant...
...Monday evening, Dec. 15, Dr. Sargent will deliver a free lecture before the Boston Young Men Christian Union on Bovlston street, Boston, on "The Evils of the Professional Tendency of Amateur Athletics." This will afford a good opportunity of hearing what one of our athletic committee has to say on a much discussed subject. The lecture was prepared before the recent foot ball imbroglio...