Word: availing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Best '23, Chairman of the Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau, will hold office hours between 5 and 6 o'clock every day this week at Dunster 26. All students having difficulties with their studies who wish to avail themselves of the service offered can apply at the hours given and tutors will be assigned to them. The assistance is entirely voluntary on the part of the members of the society and entails no charge...
...know, my dear Mr. Editor, that there will be those among the silly serious students who will think my program unduly generous. But, I ask, what avail the compunctions and decorum of five hundred students if a small but determined minority hold the balance between quiet and confusion in their power? There will be these, too, who say this is an attack upon personal liberty. I for one, stand for the autocracy of decorum. --HARRY REIFF '25. November...
...after all of what avail are good grammars and capable instructors if the students have made up their minds before they enter the classroom that they do not like the course, and are resolved not to do the work required, but to take a chance on "getting by"? It would seem that the difficulty lies not with the department but with the supposedly eager seekers for learning who can not force themselves to work in a course they are obliged to take...
...yearlings' territory the entire game and though they carried it down to the goal time and again, they were consistently stopped by Captain S. E. Gray at left fullback. A. L. Phaneuf and C. R. Brooks, too, played their positions well, but all their activity was of no avail with a sluggish forward line. The only score of the game was made by Slagle on a kick from directly in front of the goal. The shot; though stopped at first, bounced off the goaler's body through the posts...
...which gives rich promise for the future. His books range from first editions of Thomas Hardy through early Aldines and Elzevirs to Incunabula printed within fifteen years after the invention of the art. Many of the undergraduates whom I know, not content with what our American firms can offer, avail themselves of the richer field of English and continental book catalogues...