Word: help
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that by such behavior a man gains neither in self-respect nor in caste, - for want of a better word; and if these societies make any overtures to you - as I cordially hope that they will not - I must beg of you to politely decline them. They can't help you, and they may hurt you; for membership involves a habit of constant prevarication, which is anything but salutary in its effects. At the same time these secret organizations have a certain amount of power; and as long as they do not interfere with you, you had better not interfere...
...treasurer of the H. U. B. C. We cannot imagine any objections to this course. It is well known that the support of the University crew will be no light matter this year, saddled as they are with debt. The money from the Freshmen will be a great help towards placing the club on a sound financial basis. From the Freshmen aid is of course expected, and this money already subscribed will go to make up the quota assessed upon the class. We have no reason to suppose that the class looks at the matter in a different light from...
...been taken from the other classes, they have been imposed upon the all-suffering Freshmen, until with Mechanics and four branches of Mathematics their burden has become almost too much for the most enduring. Very many have been conditioned every year in studies which they could not master without help, and still more have been driven to the expensive alternative of tutoring. Thus the Freshmen, with the exception of the few mathematical minds among them, have been forced to go through an ordeal the only value of which has been the questionable moral training which suffering gives. The private tutors...
...well that a word should be said to undergraduates on the subject while the graduates are being called upon. Among the other affairs of our University in a grievous state, may be reckoned a certain laxity about money-matters. The man who subscribes five dollars to help the crew, the nine, or what not, intends, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, to pay the money. He is not pleased, however, to be asked to pay it, and does not himself consider, nor do others generally consider, that he has done anything very much...
...trouble, as I see it, is that the underlying principle is wrong. The aid is given as a means, and is not made an end; it is bestowed as a crust is flung to a beggar, and implies an obligation for the favor received. The bestowal of money to help men along will undoubtedly always imply a certain amount of obligation, but that obligation should be only a tacit...