Word: bestow
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Come ye, if ye will.' The one thing, and the only thing that students ask is an opportunity commensurate with their ability, and certainly they have it here. The University can do little more than broaden the door and keep it open by day and night. It does not bestow learning, it only affords the opportunity to acquire learning. Knowledge is not a commodify which can be bought for such and such a price and the university is not a shop for bartering and trading. The university is not an angle, but a circle touching every part of the world...
...agreed to bestow cups on their nine, emblematic of the victories won against Yale last year. This decision was very natural and very laudable; but aut pecunia aut nil and names with dollar signs affixed to them in a miserable blue-book are not money. Whereas over $100 have been subscribed for, the management has as yet heard the clink of but $60. We trust that we need simply mention this fact without enforcing its significance and the remedies for it by mighty arguments. The course to be pursued is too axiomatic in its plainness to admit of demonstration...
...quietly expired. Many of its former friends breathed a sigh of relief at its dissolution, and now say, peace to its ashes. Others, however, contend that the absence of the "hippos" ought not to mean the annihilation of the Club, but that the society now has an opportunity to bestow dramatic laurels upon undergraduates as well as upon more advanced students of "the art of dramatic expression." One interested speaks of the opportunity, and a voice from the darkness replies to him with biting scorn. How does the matter now stand? No one knows, nor is it the evident desire...
...that the present querulous attitude of Yale will soon give place to one dictated by straightforward judgement, and that on Thursday she will present her eleven at Princeton to compete with the champion team. If she does not, it is gratifying to know that the Inter-collegiate Association will bestow the championship of '89 where it will then belong. We wish that it could quiet once for all the babbling that will inevitably begin on the day after Thanksgiving...
...matter of a degree, and could expect nothing further. But the fact remains that on the occasion of an important anniversary the good-will shown so other institutions all about us was withheld from Princeton, which I was invited to represent. I acknowledge that Harvard had a right to bestow its honors where it choses, but, surrounded as I am by a body of professors carrying on an original research and printing their results for the public in books and periodicles, I thought it strange that no notice was taken of our college. I still feel that...