Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...public performances of the Hasty Pudding Club's theatricals in aid of the 'Varsity Boat Club, will be given in Horticultural Hall, Boston, on the evening of April 17, and the afternoon of April...
...great a paradox may well induce us to think better on this subject. Indeed, it seems to me that no play can gain more by being seen than such a play as King Lear. Who has ever realized, without the aid of the senses, all the horror and pathos of such a scene as that in which Lear speaks with Edgar and the fool? The majestic madness of the King, the bitter jests and incoherent ditties of the fool, the hideous gibberish of Edgar, each in its peculiar tone telling a story of great and unmerited woe,- what a marvelous...
...regards him as below his notice. He is a Hedonist. His aim is to live at all odds a happy life. If he sees misery in any form he becomes queasy, and he therefore regards it his duty to shun all poverty and to refuse to render any aid to the poor. The hedge around his house he has grown that he may not see Poverty as it passes by. Society he hates; ordinary men, men of the forum, are beneath his notice. Their institutions are follies to him. He is wise enough, in his own conceit, to rule...
...better, but on the ground that the good name of the college may be sustained. I sincerely hope those men who at once practice total abstinence and wish their college to have a high standing before the country on the question of temperance, will give us their aid. We need it, for the number in the League is small in comparison with the number who certainly practice abstinence. If those who are with us in spirit will but enroll their names on our book, we can show to the sceptical world about us that Harvard is not a training school...
...titles thus presented have all the defects of inexactness and ambiguity which come from inexperience in using titles, and, as it devolves upon the library attendants to attach shelf numbers to assist in finding the books, there is a considerable expediture of time on the library's part in aid of that institution. The over-night use by the 'Annex' of books which have been reserved for the special use of our own students is confined to such titles as, at the close of the day, have not been required to supply the latter. That their discrimination is necessary, appears...