Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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They deserve help and they need it. Not only are the rarer books of reference valuable, but also the common textbooks. The more of these available, the more men of restricted means will be relieved from the necessity of purchases...
Even although the series has gone against Harvard, we believe that the struggle which has been made for it has not been wasted. Athletics can do no greater benefit to any university than to be the means of quickening the sense of common interest among its members and of showing the necessity for staunch and active support from all in every wise and honorable effort...
...graduates, and two of whom were graduated from Harvard. These men live in the centre of one of the slum districts and make themselves acquainted with the poor in their neighborhood. They do this in no superficial or patronizing way, but by visiting the houses of the people, making common interests with them, and thus come to understand their needs and their merits. The clothing put into their hands is practically sure of finding its way into the hands of those who will make good...
...glad to see such an organization as that perfected by the members of the class of ninety-two in New York. Everything which makes for the strengthening in Harvard men of a common interest in the University is well come...
...becoming common for men to say that Harvard athletics are in a bad way and to treat them on this account with indifference. There is nothing which will more surely doom Harvard athletics not only to be but also to remain in a bad way than such treatment. Causes enough there are which play a part in bringing defeat, but we believe that none is more fatal than a weakness in the University spirit. The men on the teams never would work as they now do if they were simply a number of athletes joined into teams for their...