Word: aids
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...order to put the society on a firm financial basis, the finance committee will shortly send out circulars stating the aims of the society and asking aid in raising a fund from which the society may draw a sufficient annual income for its work. These circulars are to be sent to all the prominent Harvard graduates in the country, and the money so raised is to be placed in the hands of the Corporation for investment...
Today the sprinters will be tried for a hundred yards, the weather permitting. The times made in this trial will partially aid the captains of the class teams in selecting the men to run in the 100 and 220 yards dashes in the games...
...making an assignment of a scholarship under the present system, the facts considered are the needs of the student and his promise as indicated by his work in College. A student not in need of aid can not honorably apply for a scholarship, nor can a scholarship be awarded to one who from physical, mental or moral weakness, gives little promise of future usefulness...
...very rich, but in reality he is bankrupt. The Duke de Grabo, lured on by visions of a handsome dowry, is exceedingly anxious to win the hand of the beautiful Gioya. She, however, falls in love with Amorello, a handsome page, who finally, after many exciting adventures, by the aid of a fake magician, Astralgo, gets the better of the wily old miser and, of course, in the end wins his suit. There are several side plots which run along simultaneously with the central action...
...results of Professor Trowbridge's experiments with the electrical spark, which he has been able to produce with the aid of his powerful storage battery, have created a wide-spread interest in the world of science and he has received most flattering letters from many of the leading physicists of the country...