Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aims of the House Plan are to have a sporting chance for realization, care can well afford to be taken that artificial barriers are not brought in and raised between the two types of residents. A few measures in the tone of those uttered in the Boston meeting are all that is necessary to completely change the aspect and spirit of Mr. Harkness' original proposal...
...having to court a decision, the Harvard-Carleton speakers in Paine Hall could afford to step down from the rostrum of oratory and let the argument proceed in a series of quick rebuttals. The question was "Resolved, That the jury system should be abolished," and Johnson, of Carleton, introducing the affirmative case, claimed that the jury is a static part of a dynamic society. A. L. Raffa ocC reported that it is based upon the common man and is essential to democracy: at which Rowe replied that "the ordinary, common man is common enough" and so unfit to judge questions...
...necessity for readjustment of the demands made by a side show just at the time when the main attraction is about to begin in the big tent. The grace with which he has withdrawn his bid for the attention of seniors at a stage when they may ill afford it should be an example to those more conservative instructors who doggedly maintain that success in the past is ample augury for success in the future...
Undergraduate opinion, tinged with Congressional maturity should form a conglomerate whole whose significance the national broadcasting chains cannot well afford to overlook. The only sad thing about the affair is the lukewarm attitude of the press in giving it inner page columns and cuts. Ostensibly for educational purpose, its national importance deserves a better fate at the hands of the Fourth Estate. The practical value of having things thrashed out from the Peruvian, Swedish or Roumanian point of view by their respective North Dakotan, Ohioan and Minnesotan representatives is inestimable...
...accepting Miss Lowell's collection, the University promised to keep her collection intact, and this new gift will afford it the best setting imaginable. It is intended that a room shall be set aside in Widener Library for the purpose, and supplied with furnishings like those in undergraduate rooms, if possible, with the actual furnishings of students who are graduating...