Word: helping
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sudden wind, dragging basket and occupants over fences and through trees. To prevent such accidents; the ripping cord is used, which tears open the bag and lets the air escape. Often a careless or unlucky balloonist comes down into a forest and has to appeal to some farmer for help in rescuing his balloon. Mr. Clayton narrated some of his ex experiences in travelling from Springfield to Boston by night...
...could not overcome. This feeling is now changed, and we have succeeded beyond our greatest hopes in the administration of the Philippines. A government is successfully established; the necessary bureaus and offices are arranged; justice is given to all; the islands are strictly self-supporting, and require no financial help from the United States. The archipelago is in good sanitary condition, disease is eliminated as far as possible, roads, railways, harbors and bridges are being built, the money for all these improvements being derived from the internal revenue...
...were old enough to vote, and had not been assessed in May, could be added to the supplementary list. He had to appear at the City Hall to testify as a "bona-fide" citizen. Then Mr. Brennan said that he would be at Butler's today and tomorrow to help any such men. The hours of registration are today from 10 to 4 and tomorrow from...
...well to call the attention of new students to its many advantages and privileges and advise those who have not gone through the building to do so before Sunday without fail. The Union's large collection of papers and periodicals and its very complete library are a great help in reading for College courses, and this feature alone should recommend the Union to all men who are working their way through College. Another valuable attraction is the series of lectures, and this year's list of speakers, published in another column, ensures many highly interesting addresses...
...University is to receive from the estate of the late Francis Porter Fisher, A.B. 1848, a bequest of $5,000 "to endow a scholarship to be named 'the George Fisher and Elizabeth Huntington Fisher Scholarship,' the interest of which shall go to help worthy and needy students of said College, preference being given to any collateral heirs of this testator, in such manner as the College trustees may prescribe, it being made to appear that this endowment is a memorial to both my father and my mother, . . . and that it is the joint gift of myself and my twin brother...