Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...writer has watched with pain the attempts of the athletic authorities to send one or two teams forth into competition with other colleges without the skilled training which everywhere else is regarded as indispensable. Whether the argument is that the personnel is so good that the men can afford to depend wholly upon their innate fitness and subjective inspirations, or on the other hand that it is so bad as to make it extravagant to waste a trainer upon them, does not appear. But either argument is fallacious...
...accommodate spectators and players in the intercollegiate hockey games. Seats, arranged in the arena pit form, will provide for about 5,000 spectators. Under the seats 16 locker-rooms with shower baths have been set aside for the players, and the ice surface, 90 by 250 feet, will afford a hockey rink much larger than that in the St. Nicholas Rink in New York...
This program, beginning the third year of a four-year course of classical and modern chamber music, is part of a series arranged by a number of persons interested in musical education, who feel that American universities do not afford sufficient opportunities for developing the musical taste of those of their members who are not especially devoted to musical studies. In order, therefore, to encourage an intelligent appreciation of music among young men who have a normal sense of its beauty, they have united in framing the following proposals...
...reanimation of one of the recently extinct clubs is a project which should find many supporters. It should especially commend itself to those who are taking courses in argumentation and in public speaking, for such a club will provide the opportunities for informal debating which a College course cannot afford...
...land from the Charles Eliot Norton estate in Cambridge and expect to erect upon this tract at least one large building for the use of the seminary. The land adjoins the property of the Harvard Divinity School and extends eastward toward Francis avenue, which will be extended to afford ready access to the new buildings of the seminary. Architects have already been employed to draw plans for one large hall, and it is expected that work on this building will proceed without delay. The land secured by the trustees is large enough to provide room for the erection of professors...