Word: aid
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Royce's Symphonic Study showed high aims, an elevated style of some complexity, many episodes of compelling beauty, but as a whole it seems as if the composer had set himself a difficult problem to maintain the thread of continuity without the aid of a closer adherence to conventional form. In substance, however, this work is so interesting as to demand another hearing before attempting a more authoritative opinion. In the first movement of Mr. Clapp's quintet we feel at once the solidity and breadth of structure, although the treatment of the strings is occasionally at variance with traditional...
...have received these first appointments are eminent teachers. They believe in what Harvard proposes to do for engineering and they are willing to give up their associations elsewhere and lend their aid in the work. The appointments clearly show the policy of the authorities of the school in calling men who are not simply eminent engineers. They are searching out the great teachers and do not intend to govern their choice simply by the standard of a man's technical knowledge...
...considerable trouble by the men who will not make applications or do any thing else in this world until the last minute. The class of 1910 has followed this custom excellently and differs only from the classes that have preceded it in being more annoying and less ready to aid the committee than any class within our memory...
...Scholarship of the Class of 1867, the Mary L. Whitney Scholarship, and the two George Newhall Clark Scholarships. In awarding the Scholarship of the Class of 1867, preference will be given to children and grandchildren of members of that class. Freshmen who have already applied for Price Greenleaf Aid at its second assignment will be considered, without further action on their part, candidates for these scholarships. All other Freshmen wishing to become applicants must apply on forms, which may be obtained at the office of the Secretary, Mr. J. G. Hart, University 20. Their applications, accompanied by the necessary certificates...
...much of the actual use of jiu-jitsu, as inspector of police at Nagasaki, Japan, for more than eight years. His ideas, however, are not exclusively Japanese, but merely an adaptation from them, developed into a practical, efficient system. He has given many exhibitions of his methods, with the aid of his Japanese assistants, both in this country and elsewhere. Several years ago, he gave an exhibition in Cambridge...