Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their opposition. No college, and especially such a college, remote from the great centres, crippled in finances, troubled by internal discord, decreasing in class attendance, suffering from the keen competition of wealthy sister colleges, can afford to alienate any considerable body of her alumni and friends, from whom alone aid must come to replenish her treasury and to keep up her numbers; and yet, if we are not mistaken, the present policy in retaining President Bartlett is gradually bringing on these results. It is not alone in Boston, Springfield, Manchester and New York city that expressions of this nature...
...house were broken into and valuables to the amount of over $400 were stolen therefrom. A suspicious looking individual had been seen about the boat-house some time before making inquiries about the crews, and it is presumed that the burglary was committed by this fellow, with perhaps the aid of a confederate. Three gold watches and several sums of money were taken...
...appointment of gentlemen of the university to receive subscriptions for the Longfellow Association, will give to all a convenient opportunity to lend their aid to the accomplishment of the commendable projects of the society...
...sincerely that the attempt to have a junior class dinner should have been so completely unsuccessful. The committee wisely made frequent postponements in the hope that finally sufficient enthusiasm might be scraped together to induce seventy-five men out of a class of over two hundred to lend their aid to bring about a reunion of the class; but the effort failed, to the discredit and injury, it must be confessed, of no one but the class...
...greatly relaxed, and our venerable eleemosynary and other institutions of learning are fast becoming the theatres of disorder and excess." This paper then makes the rather remarkable statement that "Harvard, Yale and others of our older colleges are compelled to rely upon the police and the courts to aid in maintaining order." It goes on to state that "the list of shocking disorders might be prolonged indefinitely, and its significance lies in the fact that college authorities seem totally unable to grapple with and subdue the demon of misrule." We think that a good, wholesome college, or even high school...