Word: aid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...third of students who desire temporary work in summer vacations. The results have been satisfactory except in respect to obtaining advantageous summer employment for students. From one to two hundred students apply for summer work each spring but a comparatively small number benefit it through the secretary's aid. The co-operation of the alumni is requested in all three branches of this work...
Eight or ten well-formed men are wanted to act as peasants in the Norsk Fest-day, an entertainment descriptive of Norwegian life, to be given Thursday afternoon, January 30, at the Boston Theatre, in aid of the Charity Club Free Hospital for Women, of which Mrs. Robert Treat Paine is one of the directors. Harvard men who would be willing to act in this capacity may learn full particulars by calling at Hayden's the customer, on Washington street, any afternoon this week...
During the past year the Observatory has suffered a severe loss in the death of one of its oldest friends, the last survivor of those who took an earnest part in its establishment. The active aid rendered by Mr. J. T. Bowditch in every attempt to extend the work of the Observatory has done much to bring it to its present condition...
...observations made with the meridian circle instrument. The new twelve inch horizontal telescope was completed in season to measure the light of all stars brighter than the fourteenth magnitude. It is now being used by Mr. G. E. Hale in an investigation of the solar spectrum. By the continued aid of Mrs. Draper, with that of the Boyden fund, an expedition has been sent to Peru, and will thus enable some of the most important investigations made here to be extended so as to include the southern stars. The plan of maintaining two stations, one in the northern hemisphere...
...that religious tendencies at Harvard were on the increase rather than the wane. Since that time we believe that the religious life of the men here at Cambridge has grown more healthy, and that the same readiness will be displayed by them in taking a lively interest in the aid and encouragement of the present meetings. The gatherings will be held every Sunday evening for the next eight or ten weeks, and during this time it is expected that the students will show a worthy and practical sympathy in the successful continuance of the services...