Word: availed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called to the fact that there appears to be some misunderstanding regarding the privileges granted under the plan of inter-House eating recently approved by the Masters, since certain students both in the College and in the Graduate Schools who are not living in the Houses have attempted to avail themselves of the new arrangement. It seems necessary, therefore, to make it clear that the plan of "Inter-House eating," as the term implies, was established solely to make it possible for a student living in a House to take a limited number of meals each week in a House...
...Ours is a government consciously dedicated to a faith in the inviolable sanctity of the individual human spirit. . . . We have builded a system of individualism. . . . The background of our American system is that we should allow free play of social and economic forces. . . . Social and economic solutions will not avail unless they conform with the traditions of our race, deeply grooved in their sentiments through a century and a half of struggle for ideals of life rooted in religion and fed from purely spiritual springs...
...truth, attained through this spirit of inquiry, he one of the objectives of President Robinson, curbing of ideas not in concordance with his own will be of no avail. Suppressing expression from college editors will lead frequently to a condition in which students heroically fight for a cause, resorting to demonstrations which remind one of communists on May Day. Reed Harris' case is an example of this...
...Bernard Iddings Bell, of Columbia University, virtually charges in the September Atlantic Monthly that student indifference to religion is the fault of university faculties. To illustrate his contention Professor Bell relates how the Student Council at Harvard recommended in 1925 that "a new kind of required course be made available which would include the study, not merely of philosophy, but also of religion." The writer believes that the Harvard Faculty actually defeated the purpose of the recommendation. He says, "The new course has indeed been added to the curriculum, but it is only a half course, and instead of being...
...Pollak elected to be tried by the court without jury, first woman murder defendant to avail herself of that new prerogative in Chicago courts. Excerpts from the newspaper reports...