Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...late years there has been a strong tendency among our instructors to give as much aid to the men in their courses as possible, both by providing them with references for outside reading, and by giving information as to the manner in which their particular courses are to be conducted. In consequence the relations between the students and their instructors have become much more pleasant than they were under the old regime, when the undergraduates had a feeling that their instructors were trying to force them to "make bricks without straw," by giving examinations apparently destined to find out what...
...made the paramount aim, then the practice of athletics is likely to be attended with evils that demand consideration. Some of these evils have already begun to make themselves manifest in the practice of college sports. With a view to correcting them and of making athletic exercises an aid instead of a hindrance to the cause of education, the Inter-collegiate Athletic Conference recommend the adoption of the following resolutions...
...received from citizens of the North. The university is located at Lexington, Va., in the center of large coal fields and in the neighborhood of extensive iron ore mines, where every facility will be afforded students to put into practice the scientific knowledge acquired in the class room. To aid in the establishment of a thorough school of mines, some $200,000 is needed, and as Washington took so much interest in this particular university, it seems peculiarly fitting that his birthday should be made the occasion of such a gift as the one in contemplation. "It was when Washington...
...which we speak is as prevalent as usual. Such being the case, the managers of the various college organizations whose pleasant duty it is to solicit subscriptions for the interests they represent, can choose no better time than the present to make their annual visits to their supporters. To aid them in their duties we feel sure is the earnest desire of every student of the university. As their labors are at best very oppressive nothing can please them better than the prompt acquiescence in their demands for subscriptions. All those who have already subscribed should...
...doubt played a prominent part in bringing about its final collapse, which turned out of doors in the neighborhood of forty students who had paid their money for that which they will never get. This wrong has, however, been somewhat lessened by the American Veterinary College coming to the aid of the students. It magnanimously offered the junior class an asylum by exchanging matriculation tickets. This virtually places that class upon an equal footing with its own students. The senior class has not been so fortunate. We believe, however, an amicable and satisfactory arrangement will soon be made through which...