Word: availing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Notice to students in French I. You can now obtain neatly executed English outlines of Maroussia, Marianne, and Le gendre de M. Poirier at Amee Bros. The number of copies is small, and students would do well to avail themselves of this at once...
...mature judgment to be fitted for a proper choice of what studies he ought to pursue. Harvard has in the past strongly urged the students to consult with the professors before making a final choice of studies. But never before has a class as a whole been able to avail itself of the advice of the President in his official capacity, and the custom once inaugurated ought not to be discontinued. If there is one gentleman in the college government who ought to be interested in the progress of the studies of the students, that gentleman is the President...
...last few years many of the instructors, fellows, and overseers have been of that faith. This would give some slight ground for questioning the influence of the college on the young minds of its members; yet the accusations go on and state that even the instructors avail themselves of the privlege they possess in addressing the students in recitation hours, and by hints and sneers at all other religious sects, make the men more inclined toward the faith of the college. This is a view of college that is most amusing to all who are within its precincts...
...last few days when there is always a rush for such as he, and complains because there is not time for him to sit again. The understanding with the photographer was that every member of the class could sit until his negative was entirely satisfactory. If anyone failed to avail himself of this opportunity, whose fault was it? In regard to the groups, the gentleman who claims to represent the class of '85 is entirely wrong. The contract with Mr. Notman includes the class groups, according to the regular custom. Many of these groups have already been taken, and have...
...this subject we cannot refrain from saying a few words in regard to the number of parts offered by the seniors. Between seventy and eighty of the graduating class have gained the opportunity or privilege of preparing parts, but of these only an extremely small number care to avail themselves of the chance thus offered them. It would seem that the honor of delivering a commencement part would lead nearly all the rank list men to make a trial, but such is not the case. As yet, we believe, scarcely more than a dozen men have handed in their subjects...