Word: aids
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have the Allies been confronted with so serious a crisis. For should a catastrophe take place, then the way will lie open for the Germans to seize the rich Lombard plain, capture new ports for submarine bases on the Mediterranean, and even menace France from the rear. Any aid to prevent this, if it is to be effective, must be immediate. The danger is so instant and overwhelming as to leave no time for deliberation. Already the French cabinet is considering what aid France can give her ally; but France is unable to assume this new responsibility alone. All must...
Fifty-nine members of the Freshman class have been awarded Price Greenleaf aid assignments for 1917-1918. These awards represent part of an annual appropriation of $16,000, given to the University by the bequest of Ezekiel Price Greenleaf, of Quincy, who is also the founder of ten Price Greenleaf scholarships...
...proposed to broaden that chapter, incorporated 137 years ago in the original organic law of Massachusetts, which singles out the University for special mention and commends it to the favor of future generations, to include all the colleges of the Commonwealth. This amendment which was drafted with the aid of officials of the University, was rejected for reasons not connected with the University, thus leaving the status of the latter unchanged...
...recent passage of the so-called "anti-aid amendment," does not directly affect the University, which has not received appropriations from the public funds for several years. Should this amendment be ratified, when it comes before the people in the November elections. It would mean a serious loss of income for a few educational institutions including Technology, and the abolition of the free scholarships at present offered by those institutions...
...sifted from the large majority of right-thinking working men, and the possibility of serious labor disturbances next spring be prevented. The government has an enormous but imperative task upon its hands. A general appreciation of its difficulties and the support of popular opinion will do much to aid it in its work...