Word: furnishes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...course for the single-scull race between Messrs. Goddard and Livingston will be two miles with a turn. The Quinsigamond Boat-Club have offered to survey the course and make all necessary arrangements for the race. The Boston and Albany Railroad will furnish transportation for Mr. Goddard and his boat, and also for the officers of the Boat-Club...
...easy to appreciate the writer's reason for considering this an evil, - that the Harvard honors will degenerate to the level of the numerous prizes of "small-sized colleges." Even if this were true, it would be a valid objection only if the purpose of honors were to furnish a subject for undergraduate boast; but, as a fact, they have a definite and much more sensible work to do, - they are intended to furnish inducements to study. And the question is not whether the new honors are in themselves more or less valuable, but whether they are better fitted...
...hope you will not construe this refusal of mine as a refusal to furnish an explanation to any one who wants it for any other purpose than publication or discussion in print...
...recent report. As we are well aware that anything which we can say on this subject will have very little influence with the authorities, it is a source of satisfaction to us that an article has appeared which will probably be read by them and will furnish them with some food for thought...
...merely a truism to assert that any charitable mechanism, when it gets well to work, is sure to furnish results that were little anticipated. A system of eleemosynary scholarships, advertised as a conspicuous part of a college scheme, will form no exception to this proposition. A class of facts, easily obtained, may appear to testify to its unalloyed beneficence; but other facts, lying below the surface, and from their nature not susceptible of documentary proof, suggest that its advantages are accompanied with decided drawbacks...