Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...celebrated Longwood minstrels appear to-night in Music Hall in aid of the Boy's Home. The performance will be repeated to-morrow evening...
...dramatic club of Columbia College will give an entertainment in aid of the Columbia University crew at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. on Friday and Saturday of this week. "A Frightful Frost" and "B. B." (Boston Boy) will be presented, besides selections by the glee club of the college, and recitations in costume by Mr. Edward Fales Coward, '83, now famous as an amateur actor. On the castes of the plays are several names well-known in amateur histrionic circles and with the added influence of the patronessess, the entertainment should be a complete social and financial success...
There is to be a coffee party this evening in Lyceum Hall in aid of the Boy's Club, a charitable Cambridge or ganization...
...will of the late William Hilton of Boston, Harvard, Amherst and Williams receive $50,000 each to aid meritorious students in getting an education...
...with these remarks: "I can only say now that the prospect is bright for a very large increase of our educational facilities, and that, too, in behalf of a sex which has not always been favored with its full share. The city, as such, can do little legally, to aid any enterprise of this kind, however meritorious, but I understand the park's commission to be of the opinion that, if there is a likelihood of the establishment of a richly endowed college for women in close proximity to Clark University, Worcester should at least manifest its appreciative sense...