Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...policy to find means for providing a better distribution of educational opportunities among the masses of the American people. For that reason we would propose, in conjunction with the military training at the various depots throughout the country, a well ordered and thorough course in industrial education which shall afford to men of suitable capacity and inclination an opportunity for self-betterment and advancement. Some such system as that of Professor John Dewey of Columbia deserves co-operation and support at the hands of our legislators...
...practice without any definite hope of an outside match, it seems only fair to assume that those in a position to do so will make every effort to permit a short schedule, or possibly merely a game with Yale--if, of course, Yale is willing and able to afford the necessary opposition. In any event, judging by the present outlook, the sport will merit the support of the University...
These competitions afford an opportunity of acquiring valuable journalistic and business experience. The election of news candidates will be based on the amount of news gathered and general initiative, and for business candidates, on ability to secure advertisements, solicit subscriptions, and perform a small amount of clerical work...
...from the combination of these factors that we must see that socialism has passed beyond the realm of theory and has become a movement. Though there are many who believe it a step backward, there are no men, however, who can afford to disregard it as the creation of rattle-brain theorists. There are great changes in the air which will mean a new society. They may be socialistic and they may be evolutions which will stop far short of that goal. But they are changes which must enlist the active thought of every man who will aid in creating...
...drawn up. We have resigned ourselves to a long and bitter struggle. It is through the long process of attrition, of wearing Germany out by sheer destruction of numbers, that the final victory is to be won. Serious as the events of the immediate past have been, they afford no basis for despondency. When interpreted in this light, they act rather as a prelude to the ultimate defeat of the Central Powers...