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...established, by means of which students who were in need of it could receive employment during the summer vacation, or when leaving college could find positions as teachers. It was purely by his efforts that the pamphlet about necessary expenses at Harvard was issued, which did much to dispel the theory that Harvard was a rich man's college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frank Bolles. | 1/11/1894 | See Source »

...been a decided help. To men who come to Harvard from a distance, and those who are unacquainted with the college, the Association Handbook and the reception committee have doubtless been very beneficial. The disclosure of this practical work which is done by the association may tend to dispel a feeling which has no little hold on the college that the Y. M. C. A. does nothing more than hold religious meetings and send delegates to conventions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/18/1892 | See Source »

...times, but what she was as a woman is not so well known. It is the purpose, therefore, of Mr. Oscar Fay Adams, in his "Story of Jane Austen's Life," to "place her before the world as the winsome, delightful woman that she really was, and thus to dispel the unattractive, not to say forbidding, mental picture that so many have formed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Book on Miss Austen. | 11/27/1891 | See Source »

...many happy hours we have spent together as well as those dull ones which his presence has brightened and cheered. This sad loss, so near the end of our college course fills our hearts with a gloom of sadness which our coming festivities here will be powerless to dispel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Edward Fox Fessenden. | 4/26/1887 | See Source »

...have touched upon this subject, not so much to sustain my opinion upon the relative expenses of the Harvard and Yale crews, which is, after all, of no very great importance, but in order to dispel an apparently prevalent opinion, that the money put down in the treasurer's reports as paid out, represents the actual running expenses for the year. It is this unfounded opinion, I feel confident, that has caused much of the misapprehension, and misunderstanding concerning the crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 3/20/1885 | See Source »

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