Word: savings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cities there will be lists of honorary members, who are entitled to buy tickets for the private performances. Tours will be taken yearly through these cities in the effort to arouse a wide public interest for a better class of plays of literary merit. It is an attempt to save the stage from being cast out of the field of literature, on the ground that the stage rightfully belongs to Art and Letters alone. Henry B. McDowel of the class of '78 is president of the organization and Barret Wendell, Bliss Carman and other Harvard men are actively interested...
...work their way through college. The different help associations here are becoming more and more effective. They serve not to bolster a man through his college course but to open the ways for him whereby he can help himself. They bridge over the hard times and doubtless save many from yielding to the discouragements which beset a man who tries to educate himself. That so many have succeeded in securing a college education by their own efforts is something of which we can be truly proud, not only because the University offers so many advantages for this class...
...that appeals most directly to us. But the prospect of glowing encroachment upon the wonderfully beautiful natural reservations of the Blue Hill Range and of the Middlesex Fells, calls for more immediate action. The first desire of the Commissioners, therefore, is that the General Court take immediate steps to save as a perpetual heritage to the people, these two reservation, so accessible, so abounding in the natural beauties of mountain, forest, waterfall and lake, so rich in historic relations, that they would give Boston a park system unique among the cities of the world...
...University, to do our part to help along the plan of the Appalachian Club. A strong expression of feeling from the University might aid materially in preserving the banks of the Charles from being made a hideous spectacle of factories, wharfs and tenement houses; as well as save them from the ravages of ruthless speculators. All we are asked to do is to sign the petitions which have been left in places of easy access-a slight effort in view of what it may help to accomplish...
...fifty men. It is desirable that at least one hundred and twenty-five should go and as many more as possible. At present about forty signatures have been left in the blue book at Leavitt and Peirce's. All members of the class who have not signed will save the committee considerable inconvenience by entering their names at once...