Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...settlement of annuities upon college graduates to encourage and aid postgraduate study in special branches, is a system first introduced by Oxford and Cambridge. The various colleges of which Oxford is composed, possess about three hundred fellowships, which are held for various lengths of time, some of them for life; but marriage, ecclesiastical advancement, or accession to a certain amount of property, compel the holder to surrender his fellowship. The fellow is elected after a severe competitive examination, and is hampered by very few conditions in the enjoyment of his income, and is at liberty to pursue almost any course...
...ends, and of which the dumbbell in use at the present day is an imitation; second, the half of a flattened disk, with an orifice on the curved side for the hand; these they threw behind them when in mid-air, and this gave them additional impetus. By the aid of these weights tremendous distances were covered; for instance, Herodotus tells a little story of a certain Greek who had a record of fifty-five feet; and this statement is probably true, for they loosened the ground to a distance of fifty feet, so that they must have expected them...
...omitted to subscribe through negligence. Those who have intentionally given nothing have estimated, it is likely, the benefit which the society will be to them, and will not be induced to subscribe from unwillingness that the society should go to pieces. It is only from new members that substantial aid can be expected, (apart from the increase previous subscriptions). Of new members, a considerable number must join the society. It is the duty of every man, therefore, who has not joined, to consider at once whether the advantages of membership will not recompense him for his entrance...
...cheapest colleges. In England, at Cambridge and Oxford. the expense is about the same as at Harvard, perhaps being slightly more at Oxford. An almost necessary item of expense at an English University is a fee for "coaching," or tutoring, as we would call it. With us, aid from private tutors is confined almost entirely to men who have neglected their work during the term and are desirous simply of passing the examinations; but there, the best scholars, those who are working for the prizes, are the men who avail themselves most frequently of a tutor assistance; indeed...
...such a disparity in the necessary expenses as many people suppose. At the city colleges, such as Harvard, Yale and Columbia, the necessary annual expense may be about $100 more than at Amherst, Dartmouth or Williams; but this slight increase is more than counter-balanced by the aid which the larger colleges offer to indigent students. Harvard has at her disposal 122 scholarships, varying in amount from $75 to $350, averaging about $225. In the Freshman year there are two assignments made: and it is possible for a hard student to receive $600 in scholarships during his first year...