Word: avail
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is one subject in the college curriculum which is daily and constantly changing, shifting its values and broadening its scope. Cynics claim that subject to be dead. A few go further and swear that it never really existed. But what do these protestations avail? For international law is living today, and living a more active, strenuous life, than ever in the past. Had it human attributes it would surely laugh to scorn those who are now pronouncing its autopsy. Or to make sure that it is not suffering from some hidden malady, let them call in consultation as medical...
...Museum of Fine Arts announced yesterday that its Trustees had voted to grant free admission "to instructors and students in Universities, Colleges, Normal Schools, and similar institutions. Those who wish to avail themselves or this privilege should send their names to the Director of the Museum. Tickets will then be given them at the door or mailed them on receipt of a stamped and addressed envelope. For purposes of identification, students applying in person should present their own cards or a letter stamped at the college office...
...time it is planned to have the regular University crew next spring in case the war should be over by that time. Therefore the Upper classmen who report for fall rowing will be in a far better position to win positions on the University than those who fail to avail themselves of this opportunity. No "H" men will be back. If a University crew is formed next spring, it will be built around a nucleus formed by the few men who will return and who held positions last year on the second and third crews. This leaves several vacancies...
...Right Reverend William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts, will conduct the first service of the year in Appleton Chapel tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. New students and strangers are especially welcome. Students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Naval Radio School are invited to avail themselves of the services at Appleton Chapel, both on Sundays, and on week-days throughout the year...
Thus at the entrance of the United States into the world war much was heard about the failure of American college because of turning out men who would be of little avail in such a struggle. The continuance of the war would only prove how useless colleges were as institutions in time of national peril. It is all very well for us to loll around reading our classics or admiring our art, but when men are out killing one another that institution which is the upholder of the Sabine Farm and its accoutrements is decidedly a back number...