Word: aid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...connection with the athletic teams has also been made stronger. It is highly important for the good name of Harvard that these teams, widely accepted as representing the mettle and spirit of the University, should acquit themselves creditably; and to their success the CRIMSON pledges every aid within its power...
...support that was given them in the Princeton game. If ever a proof was asked that cheering tells, it was given by the contrast between the Pennsylvania and Princeton games; the members of the team say that the support of the students, in the latter, was a great aid...
...learn of the amount of aid brought to needy students who are struggling to put themselves through the different departments of the University would astonish outsiders and would, for that matter, surprise most Harvard men. We do not refer to the scholarships, the loan fund, and the like, the benefit of which is well-known; but to the quiet work done by individuals for those who are seen to be in need of help. Wealthy men here, not generally given the reputation of having concern for their fellow-students, have been known time and again to give large sums...
...issues will be published. We take this step for two reasons. In the first place, we are convinced ourselves and we believe that almost all men in the college are convinced that seminars hinder the right use of a college course, and that men who pass examinations by their aid do not do the work for which the Faculty gives degrees. While it is perfectly true that seminars might be rightly used, and may perhaps be so used by one man in twenty, the fact remains that to most men they stand as a last resort in case their regular...
...openly discountenancing the seminars complicates matters somewhat. Some seminars are given by professionals, as it were,-men not in the College and, in some cases, not even in any department of the University; other seminars are given by undergraduates who are in this way enabled to support themselves. The aid brought to these latter is the only justification that can be given for the system, but now they, dependent on the Faculty for scholarships and the like, will be restrained from giving seminars, and the bulk of the business is likely to go into the hands of the professionals. Under...