Word: aid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ability to speak well in public is not only desirable but necessary for the proper and complete equipment of an educated man. Anything that will deepen this conviction, and so increase the interest in debating and public speaking, is to be welcomed; not only because it will be an aid to success in the intercollegiate debates, but because it will help to broaden the field and increase the good results of Harvard's system of instruction in public speaking, in which the intercollegiate debates are but attendant events of minor importance, not the ends in themselves of that training...
...MAMMOTH WHIST to be held at Mechanics Building, Feb. 12, 8 to 11. In aid of the Unemployed of Boston. Mrs. John Ritchie, Jr., one of Boston's well known women, is the originator of it, with the co-operation of Gov. Walcott, Hon. F. L. Ames and Col. Rockwell. Tickets for sale at Thurston's, price 75 cents...
...conduct of these four or five individuals whom they could best observe to indicate that the men in the thick of the rush were doing something which they could not and would not do. Displays of temper have been rare indeed. The marshalls, with the assistance of an aid or two, could easily prevent all "scraps." General good nature prevails. Every man gets all the flowers he wants. Last year the two gangs that contended to put up a man for the "'96," though determined, were perfectly friendly, as was proved by the fact that the leaders finally decided...
...ceremony about the Tree. After three weeks of diligent work, the committee drew up a plan which met every objection originally made by the Corporation. The flowers were to be lowered to avoid unnecessary roughness and to give every man an equal chance of getting flowers without the aid of cliques or squads, and a system of exits was devised by which the Tree enclosure might be emptied in four minutes, thus eliminating all danger from panic...
...ADAMS.TICKETS for the Chinese Bazaar for sale at Holden Chapel, 1-2 daily. All Harvard men requested to aid if they...