Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that have reputations, and are careful of them, as it does in the smaller institutions of learning, that are eager to claim some great man as an adopted son, and therefore select several promising public men, in the expectation that perchance one of them may hereafter become famous, and aid with his influence and money that college that first recognized and endorsed...
...that all subscriptions to the Boat Club be paid before the departure of the crew for New London. The treasurer will be unable to make his estimated reduction of the debt unless all money due is received by him before next Tuesday Every student should do his utmost to aid in reducing the debt which has so long oppressed our boating interests. Nothing is so annoying to the financial managers as to have a large number of subscriptions, upon which they had relied for the payment of debts, left unpaid at the close of the year. Let every...
...collegians of France, and the young ladies of various boarding schools, have determined, this year, to go without the prizes awarded them annually, so that the money usually spent on them may be used to aid in supplying the wants of the wounded soldiers in Tonquin...
...that sport was to die out from among our college games and be no longer worthy of consideration. It seems to us rather, as if next year is to be an important crisis in the history of foot-ball at Harvard. A time when it will need all the aid, instead of the discouragement, which it can get. If foot-ball can live through such a year as next year promises to be, it can live through anything. With the best clubs of eastern Canada to play against, instead of the American college teams, our eleven will not want...
...give him more trouble and hard labor than that of studying understandingly and well amid the thousand and one pleasures and distractions that surround him. Study which is such a hard task for a school boy, becomes well nigh impossible to the college student who is no longer aided and guided by the walls of his home and the close scrutiny of his parents. No work can well be done by a man who allows himself to be blown hither and thither by the wind of popularity, or who is striving after good-fellowship with his class-mates. Not that...