Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Senate has passed a bill for the relief of Howard University...
...reported that since the death of Mr. Durant, and the absence on vacations of the president of Wellesley College, the students at that institution enjoy some relief from their numerous restrictions, many of which were absurdly stringent...
...from the school-boy spirit to the scholarly spirit. This is fast coming true in conduct as in work. "Indeed, one sometimes becomes apprehensive lest the sense of humor may be dying out at Harvard," says Mr. Hale rather extravagantly, "and it is with something like a feeling of relief that one reads of such a bit of mischief as that recent one (conducted, it seems, in a perfectly orderly manner), whereby some sixty students made public confession of their conversion, for a simple evening, to Mr. Oscar Wilde's gospel of dress...
...lectures a success. It is true that in certain subjects voluntary lectures are always popular at Harvard. Thus Dr. Sargent's and Dr. James' courses always secure satisfactory audiences; perhaps for the reason that they treat of thoroughly practical and important subjects, and in this respect afford a certain relief to routine labor in more abstruse branches. The lectures of the Natural History Club also are always popular. But on the other hand, there has lately been a noticeable falling off in attendance at evening readings, a most admirable institution, as all have acknowledged. And in general, it is always...
There has been a further rise in the Mississippi at New Orleans. Steamers laden with supplies are being sent out for the relief of the destitute and to secure refugees...