Word: aid
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...grammar schools. A few remarks, however, may be quoted with some bearing on the evils of the system here. It says: "It is no uncommon thing to find examination papers which an accomplished literary man would not undertake to answer unless he had two or three days and the aid of a good library. That too much is often required, that subjects are given which cannot be properly treated, and that much harm is done to boys and young men by the forcing process to which they are subjected, can hardly be disputed. It was said a good many years...
...every $100 profit the country receives. This tax includes the actual destruction of property, estimated at $90,000,000, to which must be added $20,000,000 for the cost of fire departments, and finally many millions more for premiums paid. By the aid of diagrams the dangerous condition of most public buildings was shown, and the average number burned for the last eight years was given. For churches the average is two a week. A diagram of a combustible hotel was next shown, warranted, as the lecturer remarked, "to burn in half an hour." Hotels are built with such...
...Hasty Pudding Club will give theatricals in aid of the University Boat Club in Philadelphia on Wednesday evening, April 4th, and on Thursday afternoon, April 5th, and in New York on Friday afternoon, April 6th. The play will be "Conrad and Medora...
...York Harvard Club met at Delmonico's Saturday evening and discussed the establishment of a fund, the interest on which shall be used to aid meritorious students in Harvard University. It is proposed to raise by subscription at least $10,000, the annual income from which would be $600. With this money it is thought that five or six students in Harvard could be materially assisted. The scheme was warmly urged by Messrs. R. A. Brick, C. C. Beaman. W. A. Purrington, and others, who expressed the belief that such a fund, created by the New York Club, would...
...last part of its editorial the HERALD has taken a position which borders upon absurdity. It says: "It (meaning aid by scholarships) fills the profession with inferior men, who make the competition greater and hence reduce the rewards an able man has the right to expect for his labor." Wherein the HERALD is justified in distinguishing the non-scholarship man as "able," while stigmatizing the scholarship man as "inferior," I am not able to find...