Word: lend
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Ephemeral as the stock-market quotations which lend humor to the situations, and as slender as the broker's tape out of which the plot is spun, Mr. Owen Wister's little story of "Mother" is nevertheless not unworthwhile. On these few genial pages, the author's touch is light and graceful; and if one cares for a moral, there is perhaps, one to be found. Not the least amusing part of the story is that "Mother" turns out to be--but this is infringing on Mr. Wister's copyright. P. A. HUTCHISON...
...play football. There is, however, another side to the question. It has become a custom in many athletic contests to give small tokens to winners, and in most cases the prizes are not coveted for themselves, but merely as reminders of a pleasant experience. These cups will also lend more dignity to the eleven best men on the team, who have sometimes, within the memory of men still in College, been lost to view in the multitude of substitutes to whom numerals have been awarded. The men to whose generosity this gift is due deserve the gratitude...
...proctors. Of these there some seventy-five in all scattered throughout the various dormitories, whose duty it is to act neither as policemen nor as spies. The government of students at Harvard is almost entirely in their own hands, and it is for the proctors to assist and lend a hand in this form of self government. In most cases the proctors are recent graduates, who know more about the college and college life than those of longer standing...
...already sent from cities all over the country. R. H. Oveson '05 called attention to the usual readiness of Harvard men to respond liberally and without ostentation to appeals for help, as was evinced in the case of the recent Japan Famine Fund. There is now an opportunity to lend our aid nearer home. No enthusiastic mass meeting is necessary. Without any ostentation the University should be proud to contribute a generous...
...greatly desired that men who have dormitory rooms, and are not occupying them at the time of the meeting, will allow them to be used by members of the association. No expense of any sort will be incurred by the owners of the rooms. Those who wish to lend their rooms for this purpose should send their names and addresses to Professor James...