Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should be a success-the CRIMSON must have representatives on its board from every set of men in college. In this way alone can every side of college life be fairly represented. We earnestly hope therefore that all students who have any taste for journalism or who desire to aid the college papers as far as they can, will send us in such articles as they may consider of interest to college men. If the college treats us as we anticipate we shall have no difficulty in filling our editorial board in a manner satisfactory to ourselves...
...reasons why we continually meet with defeat: first, that our teams are not so carefully managed or disciplined as they ought to be; secondly, that the miserable, half-hearted support the college gives the teams is so weak that it is really as much of a discouragement as an aid. In this great university of ours there is certainly as good or better material for athletic purposes than in any other student body in the land; the faulty lies in the manner in which this is managed or supported...
...starting buoy. The Columbia quarters and boathouse are right across the river, and each crew can know, with but little trouble the movements of the other. The Yale quarters are about half a mile above ours, but their movements too can be observed to a certain extent with the aid of a glass. Our quarters are a great deal exposed to both sun and wind, but the broad veranda supplies shade, and shelter from the wind can always be found. The one large room up-stairs is entirely devoted to the purposes of a dormitory. Underneath it is the room...
...heavy work for the warm weather, and turn naturally to the novel as the great staple of summer reading. But herein is the difficulty. Of course it is a very easy thing to read the latest and lightest that comes to hand and gain enough from the reading to aid in passing the time. It is true that warm weather is not calculated to inspire a great desire to do anything that resembles work, and that this influence extends to our choice of reading. But if we spend a little more forethought on what we ought to have...
...University, at their last meeting, have set apart, from the sum given in 1872 by the Hon. Ezra Cornell, John McGraw, Esq., the Hon. Henry W. Sage, the Hon. Hiram Sibley and Andrew D. White, a sum amounting to $155,000 for the establishment of scholarships and fellowships to aid meritorious students, both male and female, in the prosecution of their studies at that university. At the same meeting they also set apart, from the fund contributed by the Hon. Henry W. Sage for the superior education of women, the sum of $50,000 for the establishment of similar scholarships...