Word: aid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...some time had under consideration the relations of the Weld Boat Club to the Athletic Association. The Weld Boat Club has found it impossible to support its crews without raising its membership fees, which would be inadvisable, so it has applied to the Athletic Association for financial aid in return for certain privileges offered to the students at large...
...boiler placed in the Locker Building, at the same time to increase materially the heating system of the latter. The lower part of the building can be rearranged and the upper part fitted up for some purpose useful to the teams or the Student Athletic Association. It will aid a decision on the best arrangement of the heating system of both Locker Building and Ball Cage, if members of the University will be kind enough to address the chairman of the committee on the subject...
...Marion Crawford, the novelist, delivered the third lecture in aid of the Radcliffe Scholarship fund in Sanders Theatre last evening. Taking for his subject, "Pope Leo XIII in the Vatican," he sketched the personality of the Pope, his life, and his achievements. He characterized Leo XIII as one of the great statesmen and scholars of the age, a man who has raised the church to her present high position in large measure by his own greatness...
...daily attendance has averaged one hundred and fifty and much the same line of work is being carried out as last year, although thoroughly effective work is hampered by the lack of accurate knowledge of the conditions and needs of sailors. Those in charge have, therefore, decided to aid in taking a census of sailors. Every vessel which comes to the wharf is boarded and, in conversation with the sailors, as much as possible is ascertained of their early life, wages, method of hiring, taste, means of improvement, etc. These are tabulated for future use. At the same time...
...merely of intellectual instruction, but of general hospitable influences. And now that the work is so far advanced it is earnestly hoped that the project will be furthered to the utmost by the co-operation of the students. It has been suggested that a bust of Phillips Brooks would aid greatly in impressing on the minds of visitors the original object of the building and in bringing to their memory his heart-felt sympathy and depth of interest in every branch of student life...