Word: avail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Widener library most constantly feels the results of the wave of thefts. Even the installation of the turnstiles, although eminently successful in preventing the loss of textbooks and fiction, is of no avail against the skillfully planned campaign of the racketeer. But, on the other hand, this saving has been somewhat lessened by the losses sustained by the new House libraries during their first year of existence...
...mental reservations in taking the oath of allegiance. While it is true that this decision follows the precedent set in the case of Rosika Schwimmer, it was argued before the Supreme Court that the circumstances were different in the application of Dr. Macintosh. But all was to no avail, and the majority of the judges laid down what must now be held to be the law--that naturalization cannot be granted to an alien who professes the slightest scruple about ever doing military duty. This is the law, but whether under Chief Justice White's famous "rule of reason...
Although the establishment of a Poetry Room, similar to the Farnsworth Room is no guarantee that Harvard undergraduates will come into closer contact with English and other literatures, yet if offers a splendid opportunity for those who chose to avail themselves of it. However, at the same time that the University through the generosity of Mr. Flagler, is creating a physical environment for the enjoyment of reading would it not be possible for greater stress to be laid on a knowledge of literature as a fundamental of education? The tutorial system although already burdened is an ideal channel...
...cast about to find someone to enlighten him on the subject, but to no avail. Days past and no one appeared to dissipate the abysmal ignorance of the Vagabond. At last, after weeks of anxious waiting, succor arrived. Today at ten o'clock he will go to Emerson H there to hear Professor Sarton lecture on Pasteur. The Vagabond doesn't know much about Pasteur, but he has a vague and tenuous idea that he was a doctor, or a scientist or a medical man of some ability. He also had something to do with pasteurized milk, which the Vagabond...
...along with this intellectual emancipation, a highly desirable factor in progressive institution, is placed side by side the incongruous system of compulsory class attendance. It is the ever-present life-buoy thrown out by the suicide, who generally does not avail himself...