Word: aid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Whereas, As secretary of the Harvard Sparring Club, his active interest having been a material aid to the organization, his loss, through his intimate connection with the club, is the more severe...
...Frank Bolles Memorial Fund deserves much consideration on the part of the undergraduates. Men who had personal contact with Secretary Bolles are eager in their aid to the fund, but this personal contact should not be an indispensable condition to interest in the memorial. Secretary Bolles had influence, not only because of his personality, but because he expressed a spirit which ought to be typical of college men. To him, it was deplorable that any student who wished a college course should find a barrier in a lack of funds, and, as far as it was in his power...
...announcements, giving expression to their personal opinions by its communications, stimulating interest in their activities by its reports, and reflecting their calm and abiding opinions by its editorials. We are here not only to afford a running comment on university events, but we are ready and eager to give aid to all movements which promise increase for Harvard's welfare. We purpose to be, not so much the critic, as the servant of the University...
...society in the past has sent many emigrants from the southern states to Liberia, and there is at present such a wide-spread interest among the Negroes in colonization that the society is trying to gain friends who will aid in transporting those who wish to become citizens of the republic on the west coast of Africa...
...have the study of languages begin earlier than is now the custom, and state that not more than one language should be begun in any one year. It is generally expressed also, that in beginning the instruction of a pupil, the different branches of study should overlap, and materially aid each other. As to the question of college admission examinations, it is uniformly agreed that the examination for high school graduation should be identical with that for admission to college...