Word: furnisher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ready and intelligent response to the recommendations made. As each man's individual problem is considered, his choice of work is not limited to what he happens to prefer among the few things he may have heard of, but the whole range of charities is laid under tribute to furnish him the task that will be most satisfactory to him as well as most valuable of itself, and that will tend best to prepare him for those forms of public spririted service of his fellow-men which his expected future residence and profession will be likely to call...
...reasonable ability to speak before an assemblage, of greater of less proportions, is becoming more and more a necessary part of one's education. The club debates furnish a rare opportunity for the cultivation of such powers, by the rule which permits any one to speak from the floor after the principal disputants have closed...
...Monthly is," according to its advertisement, "to preserve as far as possible the best literary work that is produced in college by undergraduates; and, secondly, to furnish alike for the students and the alumni a field for the discussion of all questions relating to the policy and the condition of the University, thus affording a means of communication between the undergraduates and the alumni...
...primary purpose of this Handbook of Graduate Courses is to furnish in compact form accurate information that will be sought for by advanced students. If that result is attained, the Handbook justifies its existence. Such students will consult it to learn what institutions and what professors offer courses in the subjects they wish to pursue; what has been the academic career of those professors; what amount of time is asked for each course; what numbers of Graduate Students have been registered in the specified departments; what fees are required of Graduate students; what Fellowships, Scholarships, and other pecuniary aids...
...object of the committee is to give new-comers such information as they need regarding the whereabouts of instructors and other officers of the University, location of buildings and streets, lodging and boarding houses, to distribute maps of the Yard and Cambridge, to furnish copies of the pamphlets published by the University, and, generally, to assist new-comers...