Word: assistance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been placed at Bartlett's, before Saturday evening. Let no one hold back through modesty or through fear of being beaten. The managers of the association have taken great pains to make this tournament a successful one in every respect; and all tennis players should feel called upon to assist them by entering, even if they do not feel confident of carrying off the cups offered for the winners. Harvard has her reputation to uphold in tennis as in the other branches of athletics; a very good showing was made last autumn, but of course the more good players...
...will oblige. A Harvard lad who is permitted to assist in editing an undergraduate journal, and yet does not know the difference between a communication and an editorial, and charges upon editors the errors of their correspondents, begs piteously that we will hereafter allow him to prattle about Mott Haven without reproof. Ever ready to accommodate, we readily grant the boon, and also go still farther by engaging a new acquatic correspondent who will hereafter furnish to The Spirit a hebdomadal letter on Harvard rowing, couched in the style so dear to the heart of the aforesaid petitioner." - Spirit...
...shine where it will. In no better way, as the Varsity suggests, can these happy relations between colleges and people be sustained than by courses of lectures, open to all, given by prominent professors and specialists. "Cultured men," says our contemporary, "ought to consider it a pleasure to assist in such a way those to whom fortune has been less kind than to them...
...professors who have lived for years in an atmosphere of marks," we should answer that one of the purposes for the committee's existence is to stir the faculty up from the sterile atmosphere of extreme conservatism, and that we believe students can, by representing student sentiment, greatly assist intelligent faculty legislation, especially as five members of the committee are prominent members of the faculty...
...duties of the same officer in the English House of Commons, and, besides, the executive power of appointing the prime minister; 2, a prime minister, who was always to belong to the majority of the house; 3, a foreign secretary; 4, a home secretary, who were to assist the prime minister in deliberation and debate - the two secretaries being appointed by the prime minister. The speaker was also to appoint a sergeant-at-arms for the preservation of order, and a clerk to note the proceedings...