Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more shoddy by comparison. Such a nationally important institution should have a unified set of buildings centering about the recitation hall and library. Here the heavy schedule imposed by the Law school could at least be made more attractive by alleviated living conditions. Of course to those who can afford to hold forth in apartments with kitchenettes on Chauncy Street, the erection of Law dormitories would be no especial benefit, but to the more impecunious students, who come to Cambridge from distant parts and are forced to live in unattractive rooms and dine in gloomy boarding houses or the ordinary...
...final analysis, the question of whether drilling should be included in the curriculum of a liberal arts college is the major issue. Even if it were conceivable that this matter was essential to Naval Science, the summer cruise would afford adequate opportunity for marching. But it is by no means certain that Harvard University should be the site of such unacademic and militaristic activities as drilling, and obviously the teaching of the theatrical arts here does fill a very great need...
...students have been given such a varied opportunity to learn about the inner workings of the legal systems in the commonwealth. It is expected that these lectures will be a great benefit to them in their work of bringing legal aid to those members of the community who cannot afford other lawyers...
...Tickets are to be purchased from the attendant in charge of the locker room downstairs in the new gymnasium: the applicant must either have a signed letter from his father or be accompanied by him personally. The aim of the class is to give instruction to non swimmers and afford others a recreational period in the pool as well as on the gymnasium floor...
...periods." President Frederic Gallup Coburn included therein the losses (by current lower prices) in value of unsold Fairchild planes & engines; of "ventures . . . which do not now seem to promise profitable operation" (possibly Cuban flying service, various flying schools). Aviation Corp., with its $19,000,000 cash resources, could well afford the "house cleaning" of items that would otherwise hang over to clutter up future balance sheets, and mitigate the good showing anticipated from benefits of the Watres airmail bill (TIME, April...