Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crowd is often cleared away by the officers of the gymnasium it collects again a most immediately. Of course this is all due to the thought lessness of the men, but let us hope that in the future they will obey the rules and render the teams material aid in giving them room in which to work...
...bring about the desired reform. He must not work alone, however; he must join a small body of men, who have the same objects in view, and their combined efforts are bound to bear good fruit. Behind these small bodies there must be clubs and associations ready to give aid and influence to the more active reformers...
There will be a concert of the Glee and Banjo Clubs, with readings by Professor J. W. Churchill of Andover, in aid of the Protestant Church at Berlin. The college authorities have tendered the use of Sanders Theatre for the concert which will be given early in January...
...been proved that a college movement to be successful must arise from without. College men have neither the time nor the experience to originate a large plan of work. It is proposed now to work through channels already laid out. The many charity organizations of Boston eagerly welcome any aid from Harvard students. In order to make more plain the line of work thus opened, the Hon. Robert Treat Paine, president of the Boston Associated Charities had consented to describe the method of that organization. Mr. Paine said that the great problem which the Associated Charites had tried to solve...
...Birtwell of the class of '82, secretary of the Children's Aid Society was then introduced. He said there were two leading points to be considered in discussing student work. First the work must be of itself of real value, and second it must suggest the broader and deeper problem of life. The work suggested does lead directly into all the great social questions of the day, intemperance, divorce, prison reform, everything in fact except the Indian question. At the close of the meeting Professor Peabody requested all who were willing to undertake the work to communicate with...