Word: aid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class mates are slow in complying with his requests for data concerning themselves. This however is too often the case, especially of late years when the writing of class lives has apparently fallen into unmerited disrepute. It certainly is the part of all to do their best to aid the secretary, and it is only false pride or the poorest of poor taste for a man to refuse to do what is asked of him in behalf of the whole class. The class of Eighty-four has had a splendid career in college and it will be a great mistake...
...investigation. An outline and a bibliography of a subject is all that often can be attempted in these days of rapid differentiation in departments of knowledge. The fact that so little attention is paid by the college and by the majority of professors to the giving of instruction and aid in this more material department of the intellectual life is perhaps explained by the comparatively recent emancipation of the college from former traditional and set methods of note and text-book instruction. It is but lately, since the introduction of the lecture system, that the subject of note-taking, involving...
...should therefore think it quite within the province of the college, either by means of any general lectures or printed suggestions on the subject, or through the detailed suggestions of individual instructors in the lecture-room, to endeavor to aid students in acquiring right methods of study...
...colleges should not turn their attention to this line of writing, and produce interesting, readable articles, such as will improve the tone of our papers and make them more entertaining than at present. If those not on the editorial boards would only turn their attention to doing something to aid the experions of the editors, there would be less necessity for filling up vacant columns with what to the majority seems mere trash, be it essays, orations or local items of blind import and little interest, though to editors, hard pressed for time and copy, it may seem acceptable reading...
...benefit, but on account of its convenience in many ways. Its advantage in the way of ordering books and other articles from a distance are well known. It only requires promptness in ordering on the part of its members to insure promptness in the filling of the order. To aid in the collection of orders, the society has under consideration a plan of putting up order boxes in various buildings about the college. This plan if adopted, will add very much to the convenience of the society and will necessitate but a small outlay on the part of the society...