Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...guarantee to have the best laundry in the city, as we have our own laundry. Our well known steam naphtha process for cleansing clothes is ne plus ultra. Repairing and pressing done in the best manner, as we always keep first class help. We keep constantly on hand the latest style of E. & W. collars and cuffs. Dress and evening ties, in lawn, silk or satin, white kid gloves, lisle thread hosiery, canes, Hollindoff pant stretcher, etc. Laundry or clothes taken and delivered at the request of my patrons. J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard street, Cambridge...
...secondary schools of that country have in their possession presentations and scholarships which enable youths who win them to defray in part, or wholly, their education at either Oxford or Cambridge. ... The effect of these presentations both on the school which gives and that which receives, is good. They help the lower schools to fill their classes with youths contending for the prize, and they give to the universities well selected students...
...find that? The method I suggested involved no more trouble to the librarian than the present method; but by a garbled quotation you wholly misrepresent my idea. I entirely agree with you that if a student forgets to return reserved books, "a privation for a time may help to make him a little more considerate of others." I only suggest that a week is long enough (especially during the examination period) instead of the present month, which is one-seventh of the college year. There is only one more point that I desire to speak of I learned long...
...some unaccountable reason, no papers have been saved, and as the courses are apt to change a little every few years, it is extremely difficult to get an adequate idea of what the approaching examination is to be like from those old papers. If the authorities knew what a help it is to the students when grinding for an examination to see a copy of a former paper in the same course, we are sure they would bestir themselves and see that this trifling wrong be righted...
...forget that reference books are always in great demand; if a man who takes out a reserved book is too much absorbed in self to think for a moment of the rights of his fellow-student, a privation for a time, of the use of the reserved books may help to make him a little more considerate of others...