Word: furnishes
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...their beliefs and customs; and the Polynesians and the Melanesians, to show how their environment has stimulated them in the art of navigation. The policy of this series will be not to insist on the compulsory character of environment, but rather on its suggestive character; its ability to furnish opportunities which may or may not be taken, and its ability to forbid certain features...
...partnership in Campbell, Starring & Co. Mr. Vanderlip was, from 1909 to 1919, president of the National City Bank in Manhattan, a post from which he retired to his estate at Scarborough-on-Hudson. Now 63 and bored with retirement, he is investing capital in Campbell, Starring & Co. and will furnish his partners business & financial advice from his ample store...
...that he will not make the trip West to see the game. But to the Harvard graduate of the Middle West it will offer the rare opportunity of seeing his team in action, and for the undergraduate body of Harvard as a whole it is likely to furnish a justification in the eyes of mid-Western critics who are wont to scoff at Harvard's athletic degeneracy and lack of manly qualities...
...Yale Burean of Appointments, to President Angell. An unscrupulous victimization of college men, which has not been confined to Yale, has made it "necessary in some degree to select the firms to whom interview privileges are extended and to refuse to companies unwilling to plan shead or to furnish in advance adequate data concerning their opportunities...
Such a scheme can meet with nothing but the wholehearted approval of students. It is difficult to see why any company of worth should decline to furnish such information. In entering into contracts without it, as they have frequently been obliged to do in the past, graduates have exposed themselves to everyone, from the merchant who wants college men in permanently clerical positions to the fly-by-night promoter. Although at Harvard such advances have never becomes the nuisance they seems to be at Yale, where, according to Mr. Crawford, the rap at the door disturbs April as well...