Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...engaged in the sport. The unwillingness of the expert players to come out and referee the games seems now to be the chief blemish on the complete happiness of the amateurs. This should not continue. Any man thus asked should consider it his duty to go out and aid his twenty-two fellow students in their efforts, however unavailing, to play good foot-ball, not only on the score of good nature, but also from the desire of having a respectable standard of play...
...teach extended throughout the civilized world, except in a few isolated instances. There was an association of the graduates at Paris, and as time went on the power of the Chancellor was taken from him and put in the hands of this association. This revolution was effected with the aid of the civil authorities, who saw the value of the Universities more clearly than the Church did. The masters refused to accept any one given a license if he did not suit them. The initiation of the new master into the body of the masters consisted of a lecture...
...literary treat could be offered to any audience, even one more cultured than that which assembled yesterday in Sanders Theatre? What could be more fitting, too, than that at the birthday of festivities of the Alma Mater, the two most famous of her living sons should thus lend their aid in celebrating the natal day? We are at a loss when we attempt adequately to praise the address, because it seems to us that nothing ore appropriate could have been written, nothing worthier of the genius of the author. A great occasion needed a great composition, and the skillful...
...gather that the freshman class have not given a contract to young Hopeful to write in their behalf. Alas, ye wicked generation of upperclassmen. How can you be so unsympathetic and cold of heart to the orphaned and homesick nursling who thus appeals to you for love and aid. For consider that perhaps by gentle treatment after a few short years, you may so improve their tender spirit that he will lose the greenness and lack of commonsense which tempts him to give instruction to men older, wiser, and more manly than himself...
...class there are only three from Chicago, while in the class preceding there were eight. Never before was the college so good a place for a young man to go to as it is to-day. We ask you and all of the Harvard Clubs throughout the country to aid us in extending its influence...