Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...themselves very seriously; they are not out to reconstruct either literature or life. Their work is the more acceptable. It is really a relief to find a college "literary" paper, which is content with being readable, lively, and light. Those of us who feel the need of "uplift" can afford to wait for Billy Sunday
There is less use than formerly of such terms. as the "Big Three" or the "Big Four" in college phraseology. No college can afford to talk of participation in such a title when any bright autumn, after the various registrations are computed, it is liable to find itself a dozen numbers, more or less, further down the list than it supposed it was. It seems but half a dozen years ago, though it is really more, since one thought of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, possibly including Columbia, Cornell, or Pennsylvania, as the "big" universities of the country, meaning in numbers...
...work of the American Hospital at Paris has been of immense value during the present war and the plan of having "units" from the leading medical school of America in charge of one of its divisions will afford an excellent opportunity for Americans to render material aid. The University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins will also send "units...
...although classes are usually not allowed to hold smokers in the Union unless 80 per cent are members, the Union has decided to suspend this rule in the case 1917 and to allow the meetings as planed. It is hoped that those who had not joined and who can afford to do will reciprocate the good will of the management by enrolling as soon as possible...
...Raymond L. Ditmar's remarkable motion pictures of animal life will be shown in the Living Room of the Union on Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. These pictures were taken by Mr. Ditmar, who is curator of mammals and reptiles at the New York Zoological Gardens, and afford an unusual glimpse into the habits and lives of various mammals, reptiles, and insects...