Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...better chance at the books on the reference shelves, to suit their own convenience better in their use of the library, and to have a well lighted room for general reading and study. Let the authorities only take the matter in hand and the students will aid them to the best of their ability...
Among the topics of the evening was the idea of rendering some substantial aid to the University of California, and a committee was appointed to confer with the regents of the California University as to the most useful method of furnishing or endowing a scholarship in the name of the Harvard Club of San Francisco. This association has always entertained the most friendly feelings towards the university at Berkeley, and has more than once expressed itself in this direction, and whilst its affection for Harvard never diminishes-but is constantly on the increase, if any one may judge from...
...Howells, the novelist, and Prof. Norton are out in a card appealing for aid in rebuilding the American monastery of San Lazzaro in Venice, which was destroyed by fire last summer...
...London. This introduction of theatricals at Oxford has had an important effect on the social life of the undergraduates. Hitherto they have devoted themselves almost entirely to athletics as means of recreation. during the last few years representations of Greek tragedies have become popular, and now with the aid of outside ladies they have success fully rendered a Shakespearean comedy...
...threshold of a now year it is well to make a slight review of the past, to see if we cannot gain some inspiration from it to aid us in the future. Considered in an athletic point of view, the past year has been moderately successful;-to be sure we put the Mott Haven Cup again to our credit and earned all the rowing events in which we were represented, but in base-ball and foot-ball, the sports in which the popular interest is especially centered, we were weighed in the balance and found wanting. It is easy...