Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...American breakfast of fish, beefsteak, hot cakes, or what not, is unknown. The boys breakfast in small rooms, twenty or twenty-five together, each eating such breakfast as his means, his tastes, his skill in marketing, or the liberality of a wealthier friend may afford him. The school is divided into classes or 'forms.' The sixth-form boys breakfast in their own rooms, as they do afterwards when they enter the universities. . . . The boys of each house dine together in a common hall; no soup; roast beef or mutton, bread and dessert of 'sweets.' The school provides each boy with...
...infrequent players may have a chance to play a pleasant game without fear of trespassing. Then we would no longer see the stupid sight of acres of courts empty, but forbidden to a large number of men needing and anxious for the exercise and amusement which these courts might afford them...
President Eliot writes: "I do not think that young men and young women from fifteen to twenty are best educated together in intimate association; but that method may nevertheless be justifiable in a community which cannot afford anything better." President Seelye of Amherst expresses himself as opposed to co-education, as also does Dr. Howard Crosby. The majority, however, are non-committal, including President Robinson of Brown, Porter of Yale and White of Cornell. President White, however, as our correspondent from Cornell recently stated, is to be counted for co-education. President Bascom of the University of Wisconsin expresses himself...
...deliverance of our colleges from the pranks which formerly broke the slumber of tutors and proctors must be ascribed in part to the indirect influence of the new athletic sports. They afford a vent to the surplus energy of youth, which formerly expended itself in muscular undertakings of a more destructive nature. There is, also, probably far less lounging in rooms during leisure hours than prevailed before the in-door gymnastics and the exciting field sports came into fashion. The effect on the health of the students, it cannot be doubted, has been extremely beneficial. Games in the open...
...responded. Thus far I have sent blanks only to those who room outside the college yard and in private houses. I shall endeavor to call in person upon all those who room in the college buildings, and hope that every one will give as much as he can afford, when called upon. Much time and trouble, however, would be saved me if those whom I have not seen would send me their subscriptions by mail. They would receive a prompt acknowledgment of all money enclosed. Trusting that the indifference of the students to the welfare of the University crew...