Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cramped for room in athletics in almost all respects. Her gymnasium already is too small, and the utmost economy of room and time has to be exercised by all in using Holmes and Jarvis. Moreover, as grounds they are far from beautiful and park-like. Will not some friend help put us on a level with Yale in this respect...
...says, of immemorial age, and are clearly of vandal, not of classic origin. "The college faculties do not yet seem to have perceived the extreme humor of the college joke. What they ought to do is to join in it themselves with great energy and with the help of a few humorous policemen and a witty magistrate. Let them kidnap a few sophomores, just as the latter are returning from the kidnapping of a freshman. Let the kidnapped sophomores be brought before the witty magistrate, and given a year or more of imprisonment. This would be an admirable joke...
Much complaint is made at Oxford of sneak-thieves, who boldly enter students' rooms as if they were visitors, and if they find the rooms empty, quietly help themselves to valuables. Eight rooms in Magdalen were entered in a single afternoon. Queens', Hertford and St. Mary's have also been "worked...
...Princeton; to suppose that men could do this, when they have an income of perhaps one or two hundred dollars, shows a lamentable lack of foresight. In many cases they are compelled to be within a few hours' ride from home, in order that they may return frequently to help support the family. No one, of course, can doubt for an instant that there can be derived many advantages from the Eastern colleges that are unattainable in the West; but the so-called Western colleges deserve respect and sympathy for, in a measure at least, affording to the man desirous...
...liberal portion of advertisements. While many business men realize fully the fact that thee is no better way of reaching college trade than by advertising in the college papers, there are others who think that they do not reap any advantage from advertising. Still they are willing to help support a paper for the simple reason that they wish to show themselves grateful to the students for their patronage. There is another class of people who will not advertise in a college paper because they think that the students are obliged to patronize them. A person who owns...