Word: availing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House Plan is going to be tried out, and nothing that anybody says this year will stop things. Last Friday the inquisitor did his best to point this out and put people at case, or at least to prevent a lot of wasted effort, but to no avail, evidently. They are still harping on the House Plan and the failure of the News to represent undergraduate opinion when there wasn't any to represent. Well, it doesn't hurt anybody and it may do some good in waking the place up and making it a little more interesting. I always...
...Freshmen were admitted to the new houses it would narrow their possible field of acquaintances their life would not be much more comfortable than it is now in the dormitories or would be in the Yard, and they would not be in a position to avail themselves of the opportunities offered by the tutors...
...observer in the Freshman Dining Halls these long spring evenings notes that while the doors open at 5.30 very few men avail themselves of the opportunity of eating until six o'clock or after. Statistics show that in one dormitory less than 30 percent eat in the first hour. The peak is reached...
...Surrey, and that, thought Aunt Myra, would never do. Lois, for her part, loved, but did not bestir herself to contradict her aunt. When a few days later the subaltern, on patrol, was shot from ambush, Aunt Myra thought it sad, and continued her teas. Lois pondered, to no avail, and went abroad to get on with her French. But that was their last bland September; by the next, revolutionary incendiaries had laid fiery waste to Danielstown...
...crew season presents an unusual opportunity for inexperienced men in the University who weight 125 pounds or less to make some good crew; and in his talk on Monday evening Coach Brown emphasized the desirability of having every available man try out. The same is even more true of the Freshmen as there is generally a shortage of steersmen owing to the large number of dormitory crews. It is interesting to note that during the last six years only one Freshmen cox had experience before coming to college. Notices about the Coxswains' School will appear in the CRIMSON shortly...