Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leon Natanovitch Kritzman. Russia, said he, would under no circumstances cut down her wheat acreage, hoped to increase it. But she would probably not increase wheat exports. Russia had had to export most of her wheat to obtain credit to buy machinery. The time is approaching when Russians can afford to eat more...
...contention that Harvard is in grave danger of becoming a plutocracy, made in the current issue of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine, is not one which the University can afford to ignore. It represents a general fear among both alumni and undergraduates that the financial requirements of the House Plan rather than requirements of achievement and ability may determine who shall enter Harvard...
...Yale News set the average annual expenditure for undergraduates at something over $2,000. Although this figure is probably $500 more than that necessary for a comfortable life at college, it confirms, nevertheless, the "Graduate's" assertion that only men with an income of at least $10,000 can afford to support at one time more than one son at Harvard. This means that many sons of professional men must either go to a smaller college or earn something during their college course...
...housing system. With a heavier burden to maintain, one can understand its carefulness in charging rentals equal to the needs. But the fact remains, that students are the present losers, which means that the University, as it is now conceived, will suffer in the end. The Administration cannot afford to neglect this situation, or to allow financial barriers to block entrance to the Houses. To do so would be to defeat, from the start, the aim of the House Plan toward the establishment of cross-sections...
...interest people in the progressive theory of their profession seems an almost insoluble problem. It involves making scholarship practical and making ordinary business men more thoughtful. The notion is certainly Utopian. On the other hand, university extension courses already afford a practical means of bringing the best university thought to bear on contemporary life. Their development can increase definitely, the universities' contribution to the country...