Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
...originators of the plan on their success in materialising their project. Counter attractions to the evil influence of the common recreation grounds of many workingmen are necessary, and there is certainly no more beneficial line of philanthropic work than that which offers to workingmen a pleasant and wholesome resort where they can be thrown on a seemingly equal footing with those who are interested in their welfare. The charitable work undertaken by Harvard men has always had such an aim, and the present step may be taken as a distinct advance and one truly worthy of support...
...situated in the midst of a lodging house district, where a large number of the workingmen who have no homes, spend the night. Here also gather the unfortunates who are out of employment, and the destitute; and as but few of the lodging houses offer an attractive place for resort in stormy weather or during the evenings, the barrooms are resorted to for shelter and for companionship. It is to offer these men a pleasanter and more wholesome resort that the present project has been started; but the promotors hope that it will do more than this...
...summer for two months' hunting and sightseeing in and about Frobisher Bay. This country lies west of Davis Straits and north of Labrador and Hudson's Straits, inhabited only by Eskimos and abounding in game. Walrus, bear and seal are found in Frobisher Bay, while the interior is the resort of reindeer...
...summer for two months' hunting and sightseeing in and about Frobisher Bay. This country lies west of Davis Straits and north of Labrador and Hudson's Straits, inhabited only by eskimos and abounding in game. Walrus, bear and seal are found in Frobisher Bay, while the interior is the resort of reindeer...