Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...month, says he 's had enough of $5 charity, $5 sundries, &c., and that in future I must keep my accounts exact. O Al, if matches were made in heaven, accounts certainly were made somewhere else; say, you 're accustomed to manufacture something out of nothing on the Crimson, help me to manufacture $50 worth of accounts from nothing...
...among its members are Rev. Phillips Brooks, Prof. James Russell Lowell, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, and President Eliot; the Psi Upsilon has seventeen chapters, and among its members are Professors William W. Goodwin, James M. Pierce, and Alexander E. Agassiz. Mr. Baird concludes that the fraternities "are a help to their members, and a valuable and efficient aid to good college government...
...manners of the Yale Courant do not improve with age. After what we cannot help thinking a very vulgar, and not at all funny, parody on the "Maid of Athens," comes a reply to an article in the Acta Columbiana, which passes all bounds of decency and good manners...
...Harvard students, - who they thought would admire it, - but gives the newspapers an opportunity to slander the College as a whole, and creates a wide-spread prejudice against "Harvard immorality." In conclusion, I must remind '83 that stealing signs is getting almost as unfashionable as hazing, and will never help them to become popular with the other classes...
...sectarian manner. Instruction in these subjects may very properly form part of a scheme of university teaching. But the function of a divinity school is to teach other things in addition to these, in order to prepare its students for the ministry. Its teachers cannot help teaching sectarian theology. . . . That part of the community which regards Harvard College as a national institution . . . cannot but feel a deep regret at what they esteem the grave error of its eminent president in his endeavor to strengthen a sectarian school which is connected with the College by no necessary bond...