Word: aid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This evening the chance is given to aid in relieving the financial embarrassment of the Union and at the same time to get considerable enjoyment. The concert by the Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs will more than repay for the low price of the admission ticket, and what is pleasure to the purchaser will be much needed profit to the Union...
...other ways, and that while the library is well filled, there are not sufficient funds with which to keep the books up in good condition. This appeal is due largely to the fact that the $50,000 left by the Phelps estate and which has been used in aid of the library, has now been expended in the construction of a gateway between Lawrence and Welch dormitories...
...This book, he said, was published four years ago. It was for the purpose of helping the poor, miserable inhabitants of the slums. He thought that by showing people in what a desperate state certain districts of London were, he could induce many to take hold and aid him in the work of salvation. He prefaced his scheme with a diagram, pronounced hideous by the lovers of high art, but by it he hoped to lead people to see the dark sea of misery and crime, which was so near them. We give a man the name of drunkard...
...such excessive praise and publicity would be sure to produce. But, gentlemen, you have more and harder work cut out for you. To the honor and credit of your University, you have shown people that a great match can be won without the intervention of the police or the aid of a coroner. Though you have quitted yourselves like men, you have played your game like gentlemen...
...their own language well. With this mass of unformed material to develop, the wonder is not that much of the undergraduate English remains unsatisfactory, but rather that any of it is ever really satisfactory. It is to be hoped that the preparatory schools will before long come to the aid of the college, and build up in all their students at least the foundations of literary ability...