Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that I had been seized with sudden faintness, and that was all. I asked where her brother was; I was sorry for my seeming rudeness; and Mr. Edmund himself appeared then, and begged me say no more about it. We fell a-talking with each other. I could not help be impressed with the charm of his manner, for he reminded me very distinctly of his sister. Surely there was no dark hidden mystery in this man's life! What was I but a raving lunatic, to suspect him? Yet - yet! There was the suspicion, and it would not vanish...
...self again. Therefore I, sitting before the fire, smoking my pipe and reading very leisurely the morrow's lesson in Latin, awaited his coming back with some degree of unconcern. But when it grew to be eleven o'clock, and as yet no signs of him, I could not help being a little anxious. I don't know why - it is not usual for fellows to worry much over one another's goings-out and comings-in - but yet - there was something, a premonition of danger, I might call it, that weighed heavily upon my spirits. I wandered about...
...stirring nor speaking. I looked on in dumb amazement; and then, as I looked, I saw him rise to his feet, with a livid light in his eyes; I saw him draw from his pocket a revolver and point it at some invisible mark. I tried to shriek for help; I tried to move. I might as well have been a statue. Then I saw the revolver snatched from him by a hand; I saw a face, distinct and clear as his own - a face whose every line is deeply imprinted on my memory; I saw that face light...
...wish to call the attention of our readers to the coming theatricals to be given by members of the Class of '81, in aid of the University Boat Club, and to urge each one to assist by his presence the finances of the Club, and also help make a good house for the gratification of the actors. The Boat Club is very much in need of money, as it will be obliged to move into better quarters than those occupied last year, when it goes to New London. There is great likelihood that it will be necessary to raise additional...
...others only in a most unsatisfactory manner, shows them to be very inefficient men for their places. A part of this inefficiency is doubtless due to the fact that each janitor wishes to make as much money as possible, and therefore hires the cheapest, which is the poorest, help, - in most cases recommended by an intelligence office. On this account, too, changes are constantly taking place, and one cannot tell, when he goes to bed, who will come in the morning to make his fire and set his room in order. To this fact, more than any other...