Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outside of Cambridge. The annual debate with Boston College which is to take place-tomorrow may seem like an exception to this, but it really carries no significance since the audience is not for the most part drawn from the University. Accordingly, Harvard with the other universities can well afford to give some attention to the subject...
...specific cause of the apathy toward debating is the exclusive choice of political subjects, topics which often afford more opportunity for matching statistics and specious "debating points" than for matching careful thought, fine language, and ready wit. The discussion of subjects in the fields of fine arts and history as well as in politics would tend to draw more, and perhaps abler, men into debating and to arouse general undergraduate interest...
...German literature to the end of the Classical Period." That is the largest survey course. German 26a and 26b can be taken to supply the deficit in the nineteenth century and German 28 will bring the survey up to date, but a man not concentrating in German can ill afford to spend two and a half years getting this knowledge. German 24 is a complete survey course, but it is a study of German "Kultur," not literature alone, done in a half year. There is also no required reading in German...
...Signed last week by the President with "great pleasure" was "an admirable measure" for advance planning of public works as an unemployment preventive. Its congressional sponsor was Democratic Senator Robert Wagner of New York. Said the President: "It is not a cure for business depression but will afford better organization for relief in future depressions...
...lithographs, done when the artist was nearly eighty years old, will be shown. These series passed through a number of editions, and the plates in their successive printings, lost much of their freshness. These changes are of great interest and importance to the student and collector. This exhibition will afford a splendid opportunity to study the changes which the artist himself made in the plates and the variations which are the results of wear...