Word: help
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...parade to Soldiers Field and the cheering at the Stadium this afternoon gives every man in the University a chance to help in winning the Yale and Princeton games. The morale of the football team reflects in large measure the spirit and attitude of the student body. Indifferent, half-hearted supporters mean an indifferent, lifeless team. On the other hand the enthusiastic whole-souled support of the College inspires in the team an unshakable confidence and a determination which spells victory. The result Saturday will never be in doubt if the undergraduates do their share of the work this afternoon...
Most men do not know their own capacities and limitations. If they did, there would be fewer misfits, fewer round pegs in square holes. The man who can tell approximately what he is worth, and then go out and make himself better, cannot help succeeding. He is the man who has learned to think before he goes to jail...
...seems to me that she has time and again been looked upon by the Orient and by the Occident for relief and support. And i believe that when the present world-conflict ends, probably at the close of the next two years, the belligerent nations will again solicit the help of American to act as a mediator. Then, and not till then, she should take a firm stand in shaping world affairs...
...Thousands of day laborers who pay no more than a poll tax would vote for them too, in order to get a chance to work on them. And the public improvements are needed too. We do not want to be so-journeys in a strange land. We want to help solve the political problems of Massachusetts. Though the time of our departure be in a measure fixed, while we are here, we are part of the body politic of this community by virtue of our substantial interest in learning all that Cambridge and Massachusetts, as well as Harvard, have...
...doubt, vindication of faith, or what you will--that is seldom found in modern poetry of any sort. But Mr. Murray is the least skilled of the Monthly's versifiers. Only the persistent reader succeeds in ploughing through the obscuitities of his first sonnet; and even he cannot help feeling at the end that the whole business would better have been finished off in fourteen lines instead of 28--doubts in the octave, triumphant answer in the sestet, for instance...