Word: furnishes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must be the destruction of that superstructure of stadia, highly paid coaches, mythical intersectional championships, tremendous box office receipts and so on, which have made intercollegiate sport into spectacle, have caused it to be conducted, as Mr. Lowell points out, not for the benefit of the students, but to furnish entertainment to the alumni and the public. Here Mr. Lowell has not carried out his ideas to their logical conclusion. He makes no mention, for instance, of an athletic endowment which would eliminate the pressing need for the football spectacle to pay for the general physical development of the undergraduate...
...been presented with a modern play, a play in which the action deserts the wings on several occasions for the very stage itself; a circumstance quite out of the classical French tradition. An invasion of her castle grounds by a mob and the epilogue wherein she is guillotined furnish her with the harshest of realities. And Madame Sorel treats them with that same graceful, classic restraint which leaves them empty of matter however admirable the form. Give her an abstraction of the more important realities and a concretion of the trivialities and she is more than a forthright American mind...
...Government is under no obligation to furnish the people with alcohol that is drinkable when the Constitution prohibits it. The person who drinks this industrial alcohol is a deliberate suicide. . . . To root out a bad habit costs many lives and long years of effort...
...form, the feature will not vary from precedent. The criticism of each course will be a succinct attempt to present an honest criticism of the subject and its manner of presentation. The criticism is at least not avowedly destructive, and the purpose is rather to furnish undergraduates with some better source of information on the courses which are open to them than exists at present...
Professor Willits is particularly interested in the education of men who will later be handling business positions which furnish problems of industrial relations. "The position of Harvard in the academic world is such that a member of the faculty of any other university must always follow developments here," he observed when asked his opinion of Harvard's new Business School developments. "This Business School and all others are engaged in developing a professional education for business after the models or on the basis of the experience of the law and medical schools in their respective fields. The new buildings...