Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...graduate every year who have obtained their education unassisted, and cases are not unknown of such students coming out considerably richer than when they went in. There are two resources which the poor student has-first, the college; second, himself. Probably no institution in the world offers more pecuniary aid to students than Harvard." The writer goes on to enumerate the various ways in which the college assists the needy student. After mentioning scholarships, monitorships, loan funds, &c., he speaks of the system of tuition...
...upon the terraces; 1st, that they were communal houses like those of the ancient Pueblos; 2d, that they were the official houses of a migratory people. The climate of Yucatan is such that these ruins are rapidly disappearing. In conclusion, Mr. Agassiz expressed the hope that the public would aid the society to investigate these ruins before they were reduced to shapeless heaps of stone...
...with every Harvard student to lend the society his heartiest support in opposition to this foolish attack upon its interests and their own. The Co-operative Society may be only an experiment, but as such the students of Harvard are bound to give it every opportunity and all possible aid in proving its usefulness and justifying its establishment. If it fails it will fail because of other reasons than the puerile opposition of officious outsiders and busybodies...
...appropriation of $95,000,000 has been recommended to aid public school education...
Great surprise was occasioned by the announcement that a certain prominent book-seller of Cambridge, frightened at the brilliant prospects of the Co-operative Association, has betaken himself to intimidating his fellow-tradesmen. This man has threatened the most dire evils to Cambridge merchants who shall support or aid in any way the attempts of the students to assist themselves in the matter of purchases. "I will arouse," said he, "such a powerful public sentiment against the thing that any merchant who aids these fellows will regret it." There is no man in Cambridge who has made as much money...