Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...addition to a considerable amount which for a long series of years, through channels of his own choosing, he has distributed as pecuniary aid to students in the college and to scholars in preparation...
Says the Boston Journal, in its Current Notes : "The statement of President Eliot of Harvard that beneficiary aid to students preparing for the ministry has a deleterious influence upon the clerical profession continues to excite much comment. A few agree with President Eliot in thinking that scholarships are only a species of almsgiving, but the majority seem to take a wider view, believing that as aid to education has become necessary in the common schools, it does not injure the ministry or other professions to extend that aid by college scholarships and private assistance...
...Harvard. When Wendell Phillips was asked, he declared his willingness to speak, saying that when he was in college certain students attempted to start a similar society, but, since at that time he did not feel the same interest in the cause which he now does, he neglected to aid them. For this reason he felt as if he owed a debt which could only be repaid by helping as much as possible the present society...
...annual meeting of the trustees of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, at Cambridge, was held on the 17th instant. The treasurer announced that he had received $900 from subscribers in aid of American research, in addition to the $2550 mentioned in the last annual report, and the curator was authorized to expend the same for the continuation of explorations under his direction. The curator, in presenting his report, stated that he had also received $775 for special purposes, of which $550 were for Miss Fletcher's researches among the Indians. Twenty-five free lectures were given...
...then made to the valuable work done by the ten Harvard clubs in various cities of the country. The recent establishment of scholarships in the college by the New York Club was alluded to and its action praised. "But," continued President Eliot, "there are certain dangers about pecuniary aid. The nation is going into the business, I see, of pecuniary aid to indigent States. Now, I have learned from my slight experience in a single place of education that it is very easy, by injudicious aid, to pauperize a man, even though he be a pretty fair...