Word: aid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lecturing at Harvard, Park Commissioner Robert Moses of New York City said: "In practice, every American knows that we cannot remain absolutely aloof from another world conflict... we shall be lucky if this aid can be confined to money, materials and munitions as distinguished from...
When Mahan's Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783 appeared in 1890, British imperialists rated it an indispensable aid in wangling money from Parliament. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, who was just beginning to swell, telegraphed to Journalist Poultney Bigelow: "I am just now not reading but devouring Captain Mahan's book. ... It is on board all my ships...
Official Harvard it seems is afraid of being compromised by a government subsidy. It feels that such directs aid might be the entering wedge which would permit a future national administration to interfere with its highly prized academic independence. However, the validity of the argument crumbles when the facts of the case are examined. Ninety-eight per cent of all schools eligible for the grant have accepted it and this group contains-some three-hundred private non-sectarian colleges, including Yale, Columbia, and Radcliffe--none of whom have yet shown any grave sign of government corruption...
...T.S.E. money, i.e., work-scholarships, there is no reason why the government grant cannot be used to make up part of the salaries now paid by T.S.E. "Pride goeth before the fall" and a haughty University can best serve its own ends by accepting a liberal government's aid...
Throwing its full weight into the fight against the present system of tutoring schools in Cambridge, the Advocate proclamation states that it will do "all in our power to aid the Harvard CRIMSON in its campaign...