Word: augments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indication that there still exists a belief that papers are graded in such unorthodox methods as the stairway system. Such a desire might even be attributed to a craving for knowledge, the interest of the eager scholar to know wherein he has erred, to profit by his mistakes and augment his fund of information even after examinations...
...generation." Usually the requests are for speakers on current problems but frequently we are asked to provide travel talks, or talks on religion. Last year one man was registered to speak on the "Breeding and Care of Snakes." This year we plan to continue our usual program, but to augment it by providing cooperation between the Speakers Committee and the Social Service Committee...
...town games is one at Chicago where the Varsity will play a trio of riders from the Windy City indoor league whose agregate handicap will equal Harvard's. This event is sponsored by the Harvard Club of Chicago, to whom the proceeds of the match will go to augment maintainance of the annual scholarship for Illonois students entering Harvard, and is to be the occasion of a local Harvard rally. It will be the first time Harvard has sent a polo team so far afield...
From Havana he was sent to Peking where his hard-riding military experience stood him in good stead, both at polo which he and other junior diplomats played in the precincts of the Temple of Heaven and at poker where his winnings had to be relied on to augment his small official stipend. The day came when the State Department discovered that Henry Fletcher was also a diplomat. As chargé d'affaires at Peking in 1909, amid the rumblings that preceded the overthrow of the Empire, he proved his mettle. From then on his path was onward...
Although the Council's cash balance available for appropriation to scholarships and aids as of September 1, 1934 will be approximately $1000 if no receipts are forthcoming between now and then, every cent received by the Council from now on will be used to augment the scholarship and aid account for 1934-35. Accordingly, officers of the Student Council have issued a request for the retirement of all pledges still outstanding...