Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...routine and special public undertakings are intended to be of benefit to some part of the public; therefore each member of the public should contribute, on some basis, toward payment. But the assessor, under the law, asks, not--"How much have you benefited?", but "How much can you afford to pay?" This is a policy which we would not tolerate in our private affairs: and it is not strange that the application of that policy to us in our tax-paying relation arouses resentment...
...heretical as to venture the opinion that over-indulgence in confinement "with as fine a group of men as will be associated with the House as Tutors and with as comfortable and agreeable surroundings as the Houses would afford" may not be as healthy as it is agreeable. It would be well suited to prep schools or graduate schools or any other highly specialized institutions. It would indeed produce a highly specialized sort of life, like that in the English universities or the small colleges in America. Indeed it seems that college life is inevitably too specialized, and that...
...institution of such a plan of open tournaments will do much to settle the question of the supremacy of the courts also. While this is admittedly not a vital matter, still it will afford a great deal of satisfaction to tennis fans who have been arguing for a long time as to the relative merits of various professional and amateur players. Those who champion the cause of Karel Kozeluh, king of the professional world, will have an opportunity to see if their choice really is better than Henri Cochet, wizard of the amateur courts, or if, as many will loudly...
...fund which has just been given will not only allow the Graduate School of Education to expand its present research, but will also afford an opportunity to devote money to other necessary developments which were previously impossible because all available funds were consumed by the work then in progress. Although the present acquisition does not solve all of the financial problems of the school, it does aid the situation considerably and points to the possibility of a brighter future...
...most reassuring part of the whole matter is the thought that with as fine a group of men as will be associated with the Houses as Tutors and with as comfortable and agreeable surroundings as the Houses will afford there will probably be no question of anyone's eating a large majority of meals in his House. Many other minor objections will doubtless be forgotten as soon as men are actually living in the Houses. G. C. St. John...