Word: aid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spring season brings with it a great temptation to cut lectures. Just how far each man shall do so is a question which he, with or without the aid of the office, must be left to decide; but cutting leads to one practice which needs to be discouraged. We refer to that of attending lectures by proxy, of being marked present when in reality absent. The point of honor involved in this intentional deception is sufficiently obvious; but in the College today it seems to escape the attention of many who pass in the eyes of themselves and of their...
...desire that if in the opinion of the president and fellows it should be desirable to aid a graduate student by an extended course of study at any foreign university, they may pay the income of this fund to such student for the term of one year...
...Recorder, for instance, it seems very unfair that the necessary annoyances of his position should be aggravated by any lack of facilities for the execution of his duties. His office, which the Dean well terms a kind of gangway, offers wretched accommodations for himself and the subordinate clerks who aid him in the extensive and elaborate book-keeping, which is an essential part of his work. The case is similar, though perhaps not so bad, with the offices of the Dean and the Secretary. In all, the need of more space and more thorough equipment is so great...
Would you kindly aid me in charity work by requesting, editorially or otherwise, all students and others interested in boys' clubs and "progressive" work generally, to contribute any articles, reports or items of interest to the Pastime, monthly paper, printed and published wholly by the boys of my Club, the Pastime Progressive Club, of North Bennet street. We fill the paper mostly with articles written by the boys, but we greatly desire matter of interest to the members from outside sources. If those men connected with the Prospect Union and the Oak Street Club could furnish reports of their work...
...give them valuable scientific information which would be of inestimable value in forming the stroke for a crew. By showing in what parts of the stroke the energy is expended with the least advantage the machine will suggest improvements which will remedy the defects. The machine will, above all, aid in finding out by scientific investigation how the ideal stroke can be attained. Oarsmen are all agreed that the ideal stroke is the one, which, with the least amount of energy expended, produces the greatest results; they are, however, divided in their opinions as to what this stroke...