Word: furnishing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Particular territory claimed by Great Britain is of no importance to us. G. S. Boutwell in Boston Herald, Feb. 2, 1896; F. S. Woolsey in Forum XX, 712 (Feb. 1896); O. S. Strauss, ibid, pp. 718-719; C. L. Rice, ibid, 723,- (y) No danger that this case will furnish a precedent for further advances dangerous to us by Great Britain.- (x) This advance (if advance it is) is under a bona fide boundary dispute which existed before the British conquest of Dutch Guiana in 1814: Maps in Harvard, Boston Public and Athenxum libraries of dates 1657-1814.- (1) British...
INTRODUCTION.I. The proposed University Club is designed to furnish the facilities of a city club to a large proportion of students and help to satisfy the social instincts of the vast number of men who are of necessity excluded from the smaller clubs, and it is moreover hoped that it will strengthen college spirit...
...increase at present rate.- (I) Only check on increase is growth of Western universities.- (II) Such growth is likely to be very slow.- (y) Such a club, ipse facto, must be of somewhat limited facilities.- (2) It would not then prevent social disintegration.- (x) It would not then "furnish a meeting place for mass of students."- (y) It would not then unify Harvard spirit.- (b) No experience of other universities can form a basis of argument as to success of this.- (1) Oxford and Cambridge Unions are successes because number of students is steady.- (2) Yale University Club is fundamentally...
...collection for $2500 to the first bidder. Professor Farnham at once cabled an acceptance of the offer and obtained the collection. He took this action on his own responsibility, fearing that if he delayed the library would be purchased by others, but a donor has since come forward to furnish the funds...
...graduates who are interested in the project and have it in charge are assurance positive that no rash steps will be taken. Let us, who are younger, not feel bound to lay too much stress on the side of the matter with which we are less concerned, but furnish as much of enthusiasm as we know the graduates will of wisdom. If we do, it is safe to say that the failure of any plan in which both of these forces are united will be a simple impossibility...