Word: aid
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have just been formed, we hope that it will not seem impertinent in us to warn them that more work may be done than is at first evident. We are only giving our own observations as to the quantity of writing that is done by the students and the aid that is given them in improvement, while our instructors and the College papers can best testify to the quality...
...This interruption arises neither from lack of enthusiasm in the pupils of Penikese, nor from any want of generous interest in the naturalists who have thus far given their services to aid the enterprise. On the contrary, the second summer at Penikese was, to the surprise of its friends, as striking a success as the first had been, and the lists for the coming year were as crowded as ever. But the pupils at Penikese come from a poorly paid class. However grateful for the privilege of studying at a seaside school of natural history, very few among them...
...becomes our painful duty, this week, to chronicle the death of Professor Joseph Win-lock, Director of the Observatory. In him we feel that we have lost, not only the eminent scientific investigator, but the revered and loved instructor. Ever ready to appreciate merit and aid the deserving, it is not too much to say that he won the personal affection of every one who knew him. He had complained of indisposition for several days; but nothing serious was apprehended until Thursday night, when his malady suddenly increased, causing his death at an early hour on Friday morning...
...information about electives is so scanty, that we have attempted to gather together a few facts by asking each professor some questions concerning his courses. The amount of information obtained in this way is necessarily small, but we hope that, such as it is, it will be of some aid to persons who have to make out lists in almost entire ignorance of what they are choosing...
...least, it is safe to say that seldom during the year has Harvard been represented by such an elegant assemblage of wit, or, at any rate, of wisdom, as, meeting round the festive board at Parker's on Friday evening, April 16, prolonged its feast of reason, without artificial aid from the flowing bowl, almost into Saturday morning. There were present about thirty of the more prominent scholars of the upper classes, who had there met together for mutual amusement. The injunctions of the menu had been carefully and fully observed by half past nine, and then began the intellectual...