Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Eleven hundred dollars of the fund asked in aid of Mrs. Ko and her family have been subscribed. Almost $2000 have been raised to aid in the education of the children...
...present himself at the meeting. The truth flashed on the reverend doctor's mind in a moment. He had been sold by his students for a crazy man; some of the rogues having written the letter and dispatched it in advance of his visit. After much difficulty, with the aid of other letters in his possession, he succeeded in dispossessing the minds of the brethren of their first impressions, and took his seat as a member. But they kept a bright lookout on him all the while, lest the craze should get the better...
...shall be the duty of the members of the faculty serving on the board of directors to aid the superintendent in obtaining in advance from the faculty lists of text books to be used in the various courses, and the number of copies likely to be required...
...over by the treasurer of the society to the corporation, to be held by them in trust and suitably invested. The income from such investments shall, by vote of the directors, be devoted to the purchase and free distribution among such members of the society as apply for such aid, of text-books, furniture, or fuel. The treasurer shall keep a special record of all such balances, payments to the corporation, receipt of interest and expenditure of the same, as well as of other cash passing through his hands...
...there can be derived many advantages from the Eastern colleges that are unattainable in the West; but the so-called Western colleges deserve respect and sympathy for, in a measure at least, affording to the man desirous of an education what he could never hope to realize without the aid of their encouragement and instruction...