Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...laboring under misapprehension on several points. In the first place, one half of the men in college do not compete for scholarships, as he states. Statistics show that only about one fifth of the men in each class apply for scholarships, and of these fully two-thirds obtain the aid they seek. In the second place, the writer states what is not true when he says very many of the scholarships are awarded to men who do not really need them. Before a man can receive pecuniary assistance from the college he must submit to an examination by the Dean...
...money has been bequeathed to the college. For the past few years Harvard has been especially fortunate in being so generously remembered by those whose success in life has been in a certain measure due to the education it has afforded them, attesting their appreciation by giving financial aid to smooth the path of that large class of young men who have the desire, but not the adequate means, of obtaining the advantages of a collegiate training. They recognize how much more real good can be done by leaving their property to an institution which has proved its fitness...
...Elliot's statement concerning our present social condition and the opinion in which Harvard is held by people at large who, if asked what they think of having the Harvard base-ball club going about playing ball with professionals clubs, would think it a bad thing and refuse to aid the University in any way whatever. If the institutionis to reach the standard which it has set up for itself, it must, to a certain extent cater to public opinion...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra, assisted by a chorus of 300, will give a concert this afternoon in Music Hall in aid of the Vienna Monument Fund. Mme. Lilli Kalisch-Lehmann, Miss Louise Meisslinger, Mr. Paul Kalisch and Mr. Emil Fischer will be the soloists. The programme: -Overture (Magic Flute); Tamino's Aria (Magic Flute); Letter Duet (Marriage of Figaro); Sarastio's Aria (In these Sacred Halls); and the Mozart Requiem for chorus, orchestra and soloists...
...fair in aid of the New York Homeopathic Hospital closed Saturday evening. Great interest was shown in regard to the voting for the shell. Harvard at first led, with Columbia a close second and Yale third; but during the last days of the fair, owing to the fact that the fair was held in Columbia's stroghold, that college won by a score of 1,1331. The remaining scores were: Harvard, 1,095; Yale, 69; Brown, 20; Cornell, 5. Harvard, as second, won the set of oars, which was afterwards offered as second prize...