Word: aided
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...intelligent and affable young men should be engaged on board wages, for the double purpose of maintaining order among the visitors, and pointing out the various celebrities among the assembled company. It would be desirable to provide these gentlemen with opera-glasses, by the aid of which the visitors could more conveniently distinguish the prominent personages to whom their attention might be called. And for the use of these a third fee, of corresponding value, should be demanded. A stand for the sale of heliotypes, College histories, etc., might also be advantageously erected in the gallery...
...which ample time is the great requisite. New colleges are talking about joining the Association, who should know their fate as soon as possible, that their men may go into training, and funds be raised for their support. A fresh memory of the events of the last regatta will aid greatly in the correction of mistakes and abuses. In short, - not to go into a detailed consideration of points which will naturally suggest themselves to any who had to do with the regatta of 1874, - nothing can be lost, but much gained, by an early convention, and we therefore recommend...
...humbly ask thine aid...
...benefit which may be derived from it, inasmuch as the study of man as a thinking, acting being must be more definite and satisfactory than the study of that which thinks. Availing himself of the present advanced state of all branches of science, he has brought to his aid facts of mental physiology of which former philosophers were ignorant, and which map out to the student the mind and its laws more satisfactorily than volumes of mere speculations could...
...informs us that when the South ask for aid or sympathy from the North they receive "the cold shoulder." One cannot but admire the spirit which leads him to deal in the appetizing metaphor of "the cold shoulder" rather than in the "dry bones" of the ancient Jeremiah. It is impossible to surmise how much is implied by that exceedingly dubious expression, "the cold shoulder"; but the meaning cannot be extended so far as to include the Northern capital, which is the life of the South at the present time. The writer, if he is interested in facts, will also...