Word: furnished
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Besides, the lectures last year did not furnish exactly the kind of material in question, they were often too technical and diffuse for the best instruction of the average layman...
...citizens' convention was looked for as a foregone conclusion. The disposition of young men of thorough collegiate and professional training to enter politics for honorable service is one of the hopeful signs of the times. Age may be needed to give experience and caution, but young men furnish an enthusiasm and faith in reform which most of their elders fail to possess...
...incipient nihilism, scepticism, lying and irreligion." What I do say and think is this. Compulsory prayers are a positive injury to the religious sentiment of the college. They are a mockery of religion held continually before our eyes. They create disrespect for religion and furnish the readiest and most fertile subject for the expression of that disrespect. I do not say that irreligion is any more prevalent at Harvard than elsewhere, but I do believe that compulsory prayers are responsible for some of the irreligion that does exist...
...force and died away about as they had come. In addition to the screen Prof. Rogers made use of direct observation of the mercury surface through a microscope, thus giving him the added advantage of judging the wave's length, etc. which a direct view of them would furnish...
...here a right to use the rather sweeping term, "Scylla and Charybdis," but that does not alter the fact that a wet day causes this particular piece of walk to resemble closely the famous bog in which the victim sank deeper the more he struggled. If the college could furnish to the passer bathing suits, or even a raft, the trouble would be obviated, but as it is we can only cry to the Lares of our grandmother as we cross the seething flood. It is rumored that a life line is to be stretched along the dangerous passage. Until...