Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...when obliged to meet, we often find our capital too small to cover. This policy on the part of store-keepers should receive the condemnation of the upper class-men, because, through their example, the lower class-men frequently profit, more frequently become demoralized. Let the Co-operative Society help us to do away with...
...example of the critical acumen and deep knowledge of the Boston Advertiser man, revealed in his stricture upon Mr. Henschel, the following sentence from yesterday's Advertiser is remarkable : "We could not help recalling Beethoven's own complaint, after hearing a rehearsal of his 'Magie Flute Overture.' " Beethoven's "Magic Flute Overture" must be a new discovery in the musical world, known perhaps only to the critic of the Advertiser. If so, it should certainly be published, so that the curiosity of an eager public may be allayed...
...professorships in the higher and more recondite branches of learning, are sufficient evidence that this problem is present before the authorities-that is, "that ampler provision is required for teaching in a great number of more recondite subjects." (3) "Something should be done to enable the university to help original research." To a certain extent the scheme of an American school at Athens, in which Harvard has so much interest at present, may be said to be a move towards the solution of this problem. But it is doubtful whether improvement is so much needed in this direction...
...provision is required for teaching in a great number of more recondite subjects, and encouragement should be given to men, who do not intend to pass through the whole university course, to come and attend lectures in these subjects. (4) Something should be done to enable the university to help original research, and to increase the number of residents who devote themselves to the pursuit of learning. At present large funds are wasted in what are called "prize-fellowships." Unfortunately the land revenues of the colleges have suffered from the competition of Western America, and money is wanting to carry...
...team lies in its power of endurance, and the regularity with which the members heave and drop together. The position of anchor requires a great deal of tact and skill, especially in taking up the rope as the team comes up after a pull. An anchor may also materially help his team by practising various artifices to deceive the other team, as apparently rising and taking in the slack of the rope, thereby throwing the opponents off their guard for a moment. Upon the anchor also devolves the principal work between the pulls, for he has to hold almost...