Word: availed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matches or merely shoot for practice, as they prefer. Shingles may be obtained of the secretary at 22 Holworthy, from 9 to 10 A. M. on Thursday and Saturday, this week. Hereafter all competitors at club meets will be required to have paid their entrance assessment in order to avail themselves of members' privileges...
...disgraceful riot created by students in Philadelphia: "During the annual bowl breaking at the University of Pennsylvania on Thursday the crowd of excitable students got into the street, destroying considerable property. Some of them had their clothing badly torn, policemen remonstrated with the young men, but without avail. When the officers arrested George Danby, one of the participants in the melee, the crowd turned upon and assaulted the police, hurling bricks, stones and tin cans at them. Officer Murphy was struck on the head with a brick, and Officer Conner received a blow from a stone. Four pistol-shots were...
...studies at Athens begs to call to your attention the advantages offered by the school to graduates of the colleges cooperating in its support, and to request you to bring these advantages to the notice of your students, some of whom from year to year will, it is hoped, avail themselves of them. The committee asks you, also, to urge upon your trustees the creation of travelling scholarships to facilitate attendance at the school of graduates of moderate means. To all classical students the school affords an opportunity to pursue their studies under competent direction among a people whose literary...
...college produce this culture, it is unutterably a bad thing that you should found such a college and possess such a culture. If your college is to sap the vitality of men, to wither their brains by spring-forcing, to make them know so much that they avail nothing, to send forth graduates who are a perpetual sneer at their less learned betters, then let us have no colleges. But are we thus to slap civilization in the face, and because animals can run into evil courses, become vegetables which cannot? This indeed amounts to throwing up the game...
...School of Industrial Art for Women," asking for the help of our late contemporary "so far as to publish the whole or any part of the enclosed article, that all women among your contributors, needing help. (and I doubt not there are many) may know of this opportunity and avail themselves of it." We thoroughly appreciate the efforts of the writer in behalf of her sex, and wish all success to her noble efforts; and if we felt that by publishing the article in question we could in any way advance the interests of the Echo's female contributors...