Word: furnished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...determined by pious investigation of the Harvard scene. Lowell and Dunster Houses, the two units which have been in operation since the beginning of the current college year, furnish for the hand-picked groups of undergraduates selected as their first members the most agreeable and luxurious of available student residences at any college or university, nothing more...
...Freshman Halls to bring any variation in the monotonous round of dormitory existence other than a spiritless smoker once during the year should have taught the University the futility of continuing in the old path. Common rooms will never break down social barriers at Harvard: they can, however, furnish in the Houses a place for informal musical entertainment, group meetings, and similar functions which could not and did not exist under the dormitory plan. This was a plan which defied all efforts to secure continuity in any sort of undergraduate organization which had as its basis the residential unit...
...Entertainment Bureau recently organized by the Students' Employment Office to assist in handling the large number of calls for students to furnish entertainment of various kinds at clubs, churches, private schools, and children's parties has already proved to be one of the most popular of facilities...
...personnel of the Bureau at the present time consists of several excellent musicians who can furnish either classical or dance music, two ventriloquists, an harmonica player, two men who have entertained extensively with their acts of magic, clog dancers, a student who has visited Alaska in an attempt to scale Mount Fairweather, a young American who holds the world's record for speed in climbing the Matter horn, and Chinese, Hindu, and Russian students who are prepared to lecture on different phases of life in their respective countries. These lectures are illustrated with colored slides...
...Meanwhile, the colleges, whilst they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books, and I think no chair is so much wanted...