Word: aid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...those on Jarvis are needed. There will be the great athletic field in the future and the event of its ever being used for other than athletic purposes is too distant to be taken into account. There is an excellent chance for some friend of the University greatly to aid athletics by providing ample, comfortable, and substantial grandstands on Soldiers Field...
...hardest task and the one upon which we must bestow our greatest care. Every familiarity with evil undermines our moral nature and strengthens the evil that is in us. On the other hand our associations with good break down the wrong and build up the right. God's aid alone is able to give us this ability to divide the good from the evil...
...Efficient municipal aid is (1) impracticable, because (a) manual labor only can be furnished, for which the majority of the unemployed are unqualified. (2) It is inadvisable, because (a) it furnishes too great an opportunity to officials to distribute aid for partisan purposes. (b) It weakens the beneficial offects of private charity...
...Private charity is the best means of furnishing the necessary aid, because (a) it can best ascertain the actual number of those in absolute want, and (b) by exercising a personal and moral influence it tends to strengthen the laborer's self-dependence...
...constantly he busies himself. He needs and requests that all members of the University should take the matter to heart, and, if they know men with any ability at all, to inform him in regard to them. He will be glad to see such men personally, but the aid of the University at large is indispensable in making a thorough canvass...