Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boat Club needs money. It is in debt and its expenses are increasing year by year. We feel that appeal has been made on the purse of the students until further aid from that source cannot be expected. The alumni of the college should feel that they still are Harvard men in all athletic contests. They share in the regret and glory of Harvard's defeats and victories, and an appeal to them for money should carry with it a sense of obligation...
...income, he first made use of enlarged means in relieving distress and want, and in helping students who were struggling under adverse circumstances. He practised the most rigid economy as to his own personal expenses, that he might enjoy the greater luxury of a generous giver. He repaid the aid that he received at Phillips Exeter Academy by funds which, with their accumulations, now amount to nearly forty thousand dollars. He has been the liberal benefactor of Bowdoin College and of numerous charitable associations. He has stood between many worthy persons in various conditions of life and utter want...
...University is supported by the Government, with the aid of the various endowments. The instruction is free, only a small charge - about $2 - being made for the use of the library...
BOYLSTON CHEMICAL CLUB. - A Chemical Club with the above title has been organized by students of advanced courses in Chemistry. Their object is to aid each other in increasing their knowledge of Chemistry. Any student of Harvard University who has already taken a full course in Chemistry (at Harvard or elsewhere) is eligible for membership. H. E. L. Horton...
...deciding to come, however, he received repeated assurances from various sources, that it would be a profitable trip to him from a money point of view. In reply to these supposed allurements, he said that he would come, if he came at all, because his friends thought he would aid the cause of science in America, and not a dollar would he carry out of the country...