Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...already promised to Mr. Harwood, I beg to submit some explanation of the finances of the University Boat Club. For a series of years the system of expenses has been simply an arrangement of debts, so that the beginning of each year has of necessity presented a call for help to free the club from old obligations rather than make any provision for the wants of the new season. Beginning in 1874 with a debt of some $2,500, the club has been carried forward, each year keeping a representation at the Regatta, and the last year laboring under...
...coming race with Yale may be put down as $1,500, which should cover all the cost of boats, training, &c., for the crew themselves show a determination to the strictest economy. To meet this outlay of some $600 we have the promise of theatricals and some little help from graduates. It remains now largely with the gentlemen whose names are still held on the subscription-lists individually to come forward with their payments, and by such help enable us to close the boating season with the club not only free from any debt, but with a balance...
...natural airs, - and it is wonderful what a variety it furnishes, far greater than was ever produced by the complicated mechanism from which the old romance-writers ground out their dreary tunes. If the seventeenth-century novels give a true picture of the life of that day, one cannot help thinking how differently life, as regards conversation, was arranged then from what it is now. In those times every one had a good deal to say, and had plenty of time to say it without interruption; but now, although we are just as talkative as our ancestors...
...seems to be a general lack of interest this year, which is most aggravating, and very hard to account for, unless it be in the undeniable fact that at Harvard we are all fond enough of starting some new thing, but are loath to give any personal effort to help in keeping it alive...
...editors set a high value on the merits of the advertisements or a very low value on the merits of the articles. The same paper pathetically asks, "Where is the Yale Athletic Association?" No athletic association has been seen loafing around here this spring, but that is all the help we are able to give...