Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course it's got the necessary ingredients. And it's pretty generally admitted that the hockey squad meets almost all the requirements. Judging from the season's showing, the Harvard offensive seems to have been working under wraps, and for no really good reason. Both forward trios could well afford to throw their cautions to the wind and play with a little more abandon. They think of getting back on the defense before they have actually bored in on the opponent's net. It's been this abandoned drive and punch which has carried the Elis along...
Finally, the preparatory schools should exert some effort to anticipate such misfortunes as German A and French 2. Obviously, college is not adapted to teaching elementary language courses. The secondary school is the place for supplying elementary knowledge and if they pretend to afford the education necessary for a man entering college they should prepare him for advanced subjects rather than concentrating their efforts in getting him in and then hoping for the best. This problem and its solution lies in the cooperation of the secondary schools, College Entrance Examination Board, and the colleges, and they can not begin...
...Throughout the evening the other Colleges, Stoughton and Massachusetts were in utmost danger. They caught fire numerous times and could not have been saved by all the help that the town could afford had it not been for the assistance of the Gentlemen of the General Court. His Excellency the Governor, who in spite of the rigor of the weather was most active in exerting himself in supplying the town engines with water which had to be fetched from a distance, the two college pumps being then rendered useless...
...humility, simplicity and friendliness which are characteristic of Jesus. . . . Here and there one finds an exception where a courageous leader, such as Harry Emerson Fosdick, John Haynes Holmes or Rabbi Wise takes a public stand and rallies a group of like-minded folk about him. But we cannot afford to wait for enough great leaders to go around. Most of the work of the world has to be done by second and third raters, anyway, and we of the lower order should get busy for ourselves...
...periods. Middle westerners and southerners, representatives of a riding clan who cannot always afford to forget that polo is expensive, have long been in favor of shortening the game from eight chukkers to six. The short game would be cheaper because it would save ponies. A good pony costs from $1,500 to $10,000 and to make a showing in crack company a rider must have a new mount every chukker. The question of six periods was brought up last week but not decided...