Word: furnished
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...formed, to include Dartmouth, Amherst, Brown and Williams. We know already that there is a strong sentiment in favor of this move in Dartmouth and Amherst, and have little doubt but it would be well received by Brown also. Such a league would give us plenty of games, and furnish a fair and exciting contest. The colleges would be very evenly matched, and each would be incited to do its best. Let us have this plan discussed, and see if we cannot play something better than local or professional teams next year...
There is a rumor that measures will be taken by the alumni to furnish Yale with the much needed new gymnasium...
...comparatively uneventful existence of the Harvard Polo Club led many to believe that its main aim was to furnish sport for its members, and that nothing was to be expected from it in the way of match games with other clubs. While it is true that the polo interest at Cambridge has been confined to a small circle, yet the college cannot but be gratified at the victories won by the polo team in its games of last summer, and the story of its achievements will not prove uninteresting reading, even at this late...
...questions of public interest, or feel qualified to decide on any, but the most common questions of parliamentary usage? The necessity and desirability of something that will stimulate individual investigation on all such matters, cannot fail to be recognized by every thinking student. The most extended college curriculum can furnish but a small proportion of the knowledge necessary for a liberal education, and unless special efforts are made, by the students themselves, to supplement their regular studies, many will find that a diploma may be, in many respects, simply an empty honor...
...large. On the last importation of French books (ordered last June and received at the beginning of term) the society was able to sell at the rate of 21 cents to the franc. That is, a book of which the published price in France is 3 francs, can be furnished by the society for 63 cents to those who order it to be imported. The book sellers in this country charge anywhere from 30 to 35 cents for the franc. The lowest rate at which the society itself has been able to furnish books to members through importers in Boston...