Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...professional teams, although excellent practice, as it teaches them to be cool, to eatch surely and to use their heads, is not absolutely necessary to produce a fine playing nine. Now throwing and catching the ball and good field work may be admirably practised among amateurs without any outside aid, as last years college base-ball record shows, but batting and making safe hits is quite another thing and it is here that professional aid always tells. It is absurd to believe that the practice given to batsmen by an amateur pitcher can accomplish the same results as that given...
Then we should all be aided towards a better choice of our electives, besides the gain to our stock of knowledge. Such aid is of great importance when there are so many courses to choose from, and so many that one wants to take. At present the only help which we get is from the elective pamphlet or by hunting up the various instructors, But such lectures, although not aiming specifically at such an end, would without doubt accomplish it incidentally; and the instructors would be enabled to do much more service to the university, both in instructing its students...
...committee appointed at the annual meeting of the Trinity College Alumni Association last June to solicit from the alumni and friends of the college such aid in the way of money as the instant needs of the college demand, have sent out a circular. This circular states that the total income of the college last year was $31,500 and the expenditures $31,325. These expenditures fall short of those estimated for this year by $5000. The circular states that the sum of $50,000 is required for special purposes, such as $17,000 for a becoming home...
...than three-quarters of a million is real estate above encumbrances. The liabilities are $155,974.64, leaving an excess of assets of $1,023,561.35. The pressing needs of the institution are enumerated as follows: "A sextant, a terrestrial globe, more free scholarships in all departments, a house of aid for young men unable to pay the full expense of rooms and board in the city, a similar house of aid for young women, houses for professors, a new building for the school of law, additional income to cover the existing annual deficit, a small endowment for three or four...
...committee of Williamstown students appointed to devise a suitable memorial for Nathan Gest, of the senior class, who was recently killed while coasting, have rejected the plans of a new bridge and have decided on founding a library for the aid of historical research, to be called the "Gest Memorial Library." The seniors have already subscribed $359, the juniors $223, the sophomores $128 and the freshmen $80, and it is hoped the subscription when complete will amount to $1000. The library will be in one of the classrooms and open to all at all hours...