Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...proper introductions of such a character as would at least do away with the necessity of seeking questionable amusements. We have received more than one communication upon this matter and therefore feel justified in speaking of it at this length. Many men are too apt to underrate the invaluable aid to young men of proper social relations during collegiate life. We thus account for the evolution of the anomalous "grind," whose ideas self-centred, soon warp him into a something, an aliquid, repulsive to himself and repellant to the community. We understand that much personal experience from various sources...
...attend the voluntary classes just long enough to dishearten them upon the eve of speaking. Is it any wonder that from such material such results follow? The university has just cause for congratulation that the "dramatic expression" has passed as useless for practical purposes. But that does not aid matters. Men will not spend their time in oratorical drill unless they are compelled to do so by a demand made by the college that public speaking shall in some way be improved. How that end is to be accomplished is questionable. As it now stands the appeal is made...
...means of Prof. Laughlin's work, very much reduced. The remarks that follow each extract are well to the point, and show, in general, the relation of the law in question to those that have preceded it. We congratulate all political economy students on the material aid that has been rendered them by this work of Prof. Laughlin...
...said residue shall be appropriated in such manner as said president and fellows shall deem expedient to reduce the general expenses necessarily incurred by undergraduates of the college in pursuing the studies required to obtain the degree of bachelor of arts, who are not of themselves or with the aid of their parents of sufficient pecuniary ability to pay for the same. In the disposition of this part of said income, it is the intention of the testator to furnish aid to worthy young men who are not able to obtain the means of paying the ordinary cost...
...should be applied to the choice of land agents and of all Indian officials. The spoils system is the cause of much of the present distress among the Indians, and should be abolished. The speaker closed with an earnest appeal to his hearers to give their personal attention and aid to these oppressed peoples...