Word: renders
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Though we all regret that necessity seems to render our direct contact with the President of the University so limited, every true son of Harvard must gratefully recognize the great services done...
...Here, then, is an extra expense from which no adequate return can be derived. The expenses of graduation are heavy enough now without adding to the list this seemingly unnecessary item. Then, again, we all know the state of air in Sanders during the exercises is such as to render it expedient that the audience be lightly clad, and not be smothered in a mass of frills and ruffles. The cap itself adds no little warmth to the body. For this reason alone this departure from long usage would be inadvisable. All the distinction which is necessary between members...
...their prey. So he invited some of his classmates to the room, and the pig being cooked, all present partook of a goodly feast. They enjoyed their midnight meal so much that they determined then and there to form a club and have such enterainments periodically. In order to render historical the origin of the club, and also to give it a classic touch, they decided to call it the Porcellian from Latin "porcus...
...more strictly democratic. It is not strange that a very great proportion of the letters which we have received have been written by non-society men, men who feel that in the proposed plan lies the germ of the destruction of Harvard's social ties, a destruction which will render the student relations more democratic, more common and less exclusive. If such destruction is the germ of the plan under agitation, the plan cannot but fail. For it is absurd in a high degree to imagine that men will substitute for ties which are formed through interests absolutely fundamental...
...think that simply because they may have passed an examination, they are justified in making life hideous for a day or two to the poor unfortunates who are their neighbors, and who are still grinding for their own examinations. They play the piano, dance, sing, or rather howl, and render themselves generally obnoxious...