Word: aid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have reached its most critical stage. The men who are actively interested in Harvard will have already contributed. Those who have lost touch, who have settled far away from Cambridge where the name Harvard is scarcely heard, will be the men on whom the Endowment Drive must look for aid in the future. What better way to stir old memories in these distant graduates than to send an undefeated Harvard football team through their country! -- a team which has beaten Yale! The psychological effect should be tremendous. For, after all, the eleven will represent the College in the West...
...expected that about 150 men will join the club, with the aim of furthering the development of aviation. The object of the club it to promote interest in aviation by securing the co-operation of men connected with flying, and to secure capital to aid in the commercial and scientific development of the airplane and the dirigible balloon...
...industrial firms it will be invaluable as a source of quick information which may save them many months of arduous research by especially hired experts. With the aid of its well equipped laboratories, Technology will be able to furnish almost immediate information at a minimum cost. An analogy might be drawn between the consulting function of the Department of Agriculture and this new department. If brings the theoretical in close contract with the practical side of industry...
...call on you to stop immediately the American intervention in Russia. We call on you to lift what is virtually a blockade of European Russia. We call on you to stop American support of the Generals Denikin, Kolchak, and Yudenitch, and to initiate a policy of financial and economic aid to the Russian people...
...Whether this should be accomplished by the means of scholarships, by government aid, or in some other way, France has not yet decided but the ablest men of the country are now at work on the problem. The war taught France that education has passed from a luxury into a necessity. When early in the war, thousands of our officers were killed, we were forced to call on men from civil life and, naturally those best educated, best filled...