Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...completion of the new athletic grounds back of Divinity, the lacrosse team will no longer be hampered by utterly inadequate practice-grounds, as the management expects to get free use of Jarvis Field during the spring time. This will undoubtedly be a great benefit to the men and will help the captain a good deal in developing a strong team...
Yesterday afternoon in Sever 11 Professor Wright gave the first of two lectures upon "Homer." These lectures are open to the public, but they are designed especially to benefit students taking either Greek B or Greek C. Professor Wright had the close attention of his audience throughout, and the help gained from his lecture by those students about to take up the study of Homer cannot fail to be great...
...class, and in the past it has always been an occasion of much harmony and good fellowship. It is very desirable that the '90 dinner should be a success, and this cannot be unless every man makes it a duty to be present and tries his best to help on class feeling. The committee would like to have some idea of the number of men intending to be present, in order that they may make suitable arrangements. But as yet barely a dozen men have signed the book. It is earnestly desired that there should be at least one hundred...
...loss of Captain Griffing. Besides him seven other members of last year's team have left college, so that to be able to wrest the championship from Princeton and to bring it back to its natural home all the candidates will have to work their best and help the captain to their utmost abilities...
...loss will be greater than that of missing an ordinary lecture. If, as Professor Norton maintains, people in America neglect that side of cultivation which ancient Greece and her works of art represent, there can be no better way for Americans to redeem themselves than by contributing to help on the excavations of Delphi and then profiting by the result. There is probably no richer place for the excavation of works of Greek art than at Delphi to-day. The great nations of Europe, more appreciative of the advantages of such work, appropriate liberal sums from the state treasury...