Word: aid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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REPUBLICAN CLUB NOTICES - Every member who can spare time to aid the officers is urged to send his name and address to 23 Holworthy...
Harvard won the third game with Brown yesterday after a wretched exhibition of ball playing for the first two innings, by a score of 4 to 3. Harvard won the game simply by bunching her hits successfully, and with the aid of a couple of errors by Brown. This was the deciding game of the series, Harvard winning the first game at Worcester, 9 to 0, and Brown the second game at Providence 4 to 3. Brown's three runs were made in the second inning by some very loose playing on Harvard's part. Five errors and a passed...
...Yale launch was seriously damaged by fire recently while at anchor in the Qunnipiac river. A watchman discovered the fire and succeeded in extinguishing the flames with the aid of a fireman...
Will you allow me to call attention in your columns to the Home Libraries of the Children's Aid Society? The plan of work is as follows: Twenty volumes of good story books are placed in the home of some poor child, who acts as a librarian; nine other children belong to the group, and meet once a week at a given hour to change their books. At this time a visitor meets them, oversees the library-work, and plays games with, or reads to the children for an hour or so. Several students have acted as visitors this winter...
...striking instances of the generosity of the university appears this morning in the large list of fellowships and graduate scholarships. When a university is able to offer as an aid to high students over eighteen thousand dollars it may well be proud of its position. The graduate scholarships play an important part in the education of the country. Unless a man is fairly well off it is very hard for him to afford to give up beginning to earn his living as soon as he leaves college, and instead to devote a few more years to his education. Were...