Word: afford
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Committee of the H. A. A. to offer a special day's sports for Freshmen only (excepting the bicycle handicap), deserves the attention of that class, and we hope to see them take advantage of this opportunity in large numbers. The committee's idea in doing so is to afford the Freshmen a chance of comparing their own records on that day with those of some of the upper classmen. Freshmen are apt to feel some reluctance to enter a race against other men who have been training - as Freshmen erroneously suppose - for some time. This special day's programme...
...permission of the gentleman who has made this gift to the College, we are enabled to print with this issue the ground-plans and a sectional view of the elevation, and though they may not furnish an idea of the building as it will look when finished, they may afford some conception of its dimensions and its accommodations...
...fourth session of the Summer School of Geology will be held, as were the first and second sessions, in connection with the field-work of the Kentucky Geological Survey. The object will be to afford field practice on the various problems of Physical Geology accessible between the Mississippi River and the Appalachian Mountains. Persons may enter upon their work at any time after June 15. The fee for instruction and the use of camp equipage will be fifty dollars for the term of six weeks. Board in camp will be about five dollars per week. The school will be under...
...weary; all capped by the inevitable Nation, in deference to which I form my opinions. These, together with my visits to the art galleries and an occasional evening in a drawing-room, - barter these for 80 per cent in Greek and the approbation of Spider? I cannot afford to do so. No! Let Spider spend all his evenings with Socrates and Plato, if he will. I am content to give a few of mine to some modern dramatist at the Museum, or to a little philosophy which might puzzle Socrates himself...
...approaching races. It is to be hoped that the Union Boat-Club will consider favorably the plan proposed for the combination regatta between the sixes and also between the fours, as the entrance of this well-known rowing association into the race will create new interest in boating, and afford some incentive to row and train for the next two months, beside the customary pewter mug. If convenient to the Union, the first race will take place early in May, and the second will be rowed after an interval of two weeks, thus finishing all work on the river before...