Word: availed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Perhaps the most remarkable illustration of native teaching in Cairo is to be found in the university, which is established in what was formerly a mosque. This is the university of the Mohammedan world. Students come hither to avail themselves of its instruction not only from all parts of Egypt, but from all over the Orient, and the number in constant attendance ranges from 10,000 to 12,000. For over 900 years this institution has kept the even tenor of its way in this same old mosque, in the same old fashion of teaching and learning, with the same...
...dozens of times every day the notices forbidding peddlers and beggars to come into the buildings and among the students, but apparently they are of as little avail as our prayers for fire-escapes. Still, let us not give up all hope for when the peddlers are kept out the fire-escapes may be built, and the gymnasium may be lighted at the entrance...
...colleges in her fielding average and five Harvard men led in their respective positions in the field, we were at the foot of the list in batting. The experience of the past in both professional and amateur baseball circles has shown that good fielding with poor batting will avail nothing against strong batting. It is ability to bat that wins the games and for Harvarn to make any sort of show in the future she must have a pitcher who can keep down an opponent's batting, and men who can bat for us. Our men will never learn...
...motives. It would not have been the owl, the bird of Minerva, which would have led them on, but a lark. Certainly they are offered the privilege of a Harvard annex (without, however, the excellent offices of Miss Ticknor to arrange matters), but the masses have not jumped to avail themselves of it.-[N. Y. letter to Traveller...
...combine prose, poetry, and news in such proportion as will be acceptable to our readers for their daily edification and enjoyment. In conclusion we would say that the columns of THE HERALD-CRIMSON are open to all members of the university, and we shall hope continually that they may avail themselves of the opportunity to share their knowledge and ignorance, joy and sorrow with their fellow students...