Word: aid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hoped that Dr. Fiske's lectures in aid of the Prospect Union will be well attended, since the Union is greatly in need of funds. It is hardly necessary to say that in these lectures Mr. Fiske is at his best, and that no man is better qualified to give a graphic and vivid account of the great engagements of our civil...
...Pierian are to be congratulated in their acquisition of a permanent coach and one so competent as Mr. Loeffler. With his aid and by adopting a stricter policy in regard to membership, the standard of the orchestra promises to be higher in the future. Moreover assurance of good training will doubtless prove an attraction...
First is the question of a suitable approach from the park now being formed on the river bank but a short distance away. "It is not beyond the powers of imagination to suppose that the city might lend its aid to unite thus the river park and the College grounds by a short bit of park-like road. Then there is the decision as to main axes, so that breadth and long vistas may be obtained in the future when the buildings will inevitably be closer together than now. The axis through the Quincy street property might bear some relation...
...committee expressed itself as persuaded that a more carefully studied plan of this general sort is what should be made with all information and suggestion embodied in it that the President and Fellows can supply, for no landscape plan can be of value unless the Corporation thus lend their aid to its formation and are interested in its execution...
...report of Provost C. C. Harrison to the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania for the year ending August 31, 1897, which has just been published, shows a year of advancement, extension, and general improvement in nearly every department. The provost, commenting on the fact that the university gave aid to the amount of over $50,000 to 331 students, says that the question of free tuition is a very serious one, and that scholarships should be applied for by the student only as the last resort...