Word: furnishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when an Oxford four mile team won a sensational race by a few inches, and in 1920, when a combined Oxford-Cambridge team appeared in a two mile relay, the English runners established a reputation which has caused many track critics to doubt whether any American colleges can furnish teams strong enough to keep the title from the invaders. Among the Eastern colleges the strongest contenders in the two mile relay are Cornoll Georgetown, and Yale, while from the West will come fast teams from Kansas and Chicago. The program for the Carnival includes as well as relay racos, many...
...time of the execution of Austin Hall the building was expected to furnish accommodation for 50 years, but according to the report of the Dean in 1891, it was already overcrowded. The reading room was enlarged, which relieved the situation for the moment, but the authorities realized that an additional building was necessary. In 1901 Dean Ames reported that the shelves of the library were full, and as a temporary expedient, a building abandoned by the Lawrence Scientific School and the cellar in Walter Hastings Hall were used as storage rooms for the overflow of books...
...social, and intellectual world as in the physical and biological; and by studying all things as in process of "becoming", by emphasizing the ideas of development, continuity with the past, cause and effect, and the interplay of many different forces--political, economic, social, intellectual, and religious--it not only furnishes a new outlook on many kinds of questions but helps to develop certain habits of observation and reasoning not less essential than those developed by the other sciences. Whatever other subjects a man may study in college, he will generally find it useful to approach them with some knowledge...
...often tempted to regard as rooted in the laws of nature or else as senseless and indefensible, by showing us how they arose and became what they are, what human needs and interests they have served, what forces have favored or misguided their development. History may not furnish the statesman with exact solutions for each concrete problem. But it can give him a deeper insight into the nature of political forces; it can train his powers of observation and reflection about political matters; it can supply him with a mass of evidence of how given measures and policies have worked...
...University in 1700, has enabled the establishment of a scholarship fund provided for by a benefactor who died more than 220 years ago. The land, which is situated in Dorchester near the present Codman Square, was bequeathed to the University by William Stoughton 1650 and was intended to furnish an income to go toward the support of a scholar, preferably from Dorchester. Although the income from the property has been irregular, rent from if has often been applied to scholarships, but the fund has now been increased sufficiently to assure one or more annual awards...