Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...every one who looks at it fairly. The provision for having reserved seats in the gallery, by which the confusion and crowding of last year will be largely obviated, is also commendable. To conclude, we can only hope that the students themselves, by many entries and large attendance, will help to make these meetings the most successful yet held; certainly the Executive Committee has done all in its power to further this result, in the preliminary arrangements...
...going to keep a diary this year. Cousin Sue gave me this; and, when I get back to college, it will help recall her to me. Had a talk with the governor to-day. He thinks I don't study enough, and wonders why I am absent from recitation so much. Resolved to brace, - to go to bed at 10.30 P.M. and get up to prayers all the rest of this year. Shall not go to the theatre at all till after the "Semis." What a lot you could accomplish in life, if you wasted no time! (That...
...fresh, and loveth beyond all things to snub, which, translated, is sit upon the hopes of youthful genius. And verily, to the young man's questions she returneth answers which are as naught, and the young man runneth through his stock of conversation and no one will come to help him; and lo, to a saying of the young man that the garlands that deck the feast are of exceeding beauty, she respondeth that without the snow is falling, and of a verity it was falling, for the day was exceeding cold, and the young man wist...
...with Hellenic art, and has received comparatively little attention heretofore from archaeologists, its ruins are considered especially valuable, and in its theatre, temple, cemeteries, and fortifications, discoveries are possible that will solve some of the vexed problems in archaeology. Should none of these results, however, be reached, there cannot help being others of importance; and something will have been accomplished if America becomes known for her devotion to other than material ends...
...year, and go abroad for his health. Not only has the course been an extremely interesting and instructive one, but it has shown an amount of original research that has been little appreciated, except by those students who have closely followed the lectures. And in this connection we cannot help saying a word with reference to the work undertaken by Mr. Snow. Called suddenly to finish a course of lectures began by another, his position undoubtedly is a difficult and a trying one; and we hope that this difficulty will not be increased by the students, but that they will...