Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SOME helpless sort of a person in Pittsburgh advertises for "one or two steady girls to help on pantaloons...
...supposing that proctors had not perambulated the room during the examination, and that half a dozen students had taken advantage of their absence to make use of illicit help, and had thereby added ten per cent to their average by wrongful means, would this circumstance have outweighed the advantage which might have accrued to the feelings of confidence between instructor and students, resulting from the absence of proctors...
Again, many students regard the use of illegal help in examination as free from deception or disrepute, on the ground that the Faculty show that they expect them to use illegal help by the supervision of proctors; and many who use such aid at present would not think of doing so if proctors were dispensed with...
Thus we may conclude with justice, that an innovation such as that proposed by the instructor in Fine Arts would not only have the effect of not increasing the use of help in examinations, but would also have an effect upon the relations of the students to the Faculty, and upon the standard of honor in College, the advantage of which could not be overestimated...
...help or money to his friends with little hope he wrote...