Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reasons advanced for this step are these: that, whereas some of the organizations are financially very successful, others are constantly in debt and are appealing to alumni for aid. The alumni looking out simply for the credit of Princeton do not feel like giving money, say for track athletics, while the foot-ball and lacrosse are declaring handsome dividends which are being divided among the members of those teams. The alumni think that all the financial resources of the various teams taken as a whole, should be exhausted before they are asked to contribute. Then, feeling that they were aiding...
...seen, the merits of the plan rest mainly on the question, whether or not the consolidation would insure enough more alumni aid to cover the increase in expenditure, the decrease in individual undergraduate interest, and besides give materially increased help to the important non self-supporting organizations. It seems to the outsider as if this would not be likely to ensure and that more damage than good would come from "bunching" interests that are essentially independent...
...known that now at the end of every year Harvard either has almost no surplus, or is in debt. To lower the charges for tuition, from which the income is at least $150,000, would seriously affect our financial prosperity. Yet it seems as if, in addition to the aid given by scholarships and loans, the tuition in some cases might be made free to those who are in great need of money. Such a policy is pursued in many other colleges, and in some of the fitting schools...
...many students fully appreciate the relative importance of these events? The newspapers do little to aid us. A polo match, a scandal, or a murder is honored with as prominent a place in their columns, and is as heavily leaded as the account of the downfall of a ministry. In their editorials party wranglings find play ad nauseam. In the maze of news, rumor, gossip and scandal, he is indeed clear sighted who can find his way. The need and usefulness of a course in contemporaneous history will hardly be questioned. Whether such a course is feasible and practicable, will...
...notice where a few dollars carefully expended would eradicate abuses which have for a generation distinguished Harvard. Notwithstanding this condition of affairs, no notice is taken of them, but all friends of education and civilization are invited to send, even at a personal sacrifice, money to Athens to aid in the study of the Erectheum. Truly, learning has grown to gigantic proportions if its pursuit is allowed to overstep the most ordinary and evident bounds of common sense...