Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hand every morning by seven o'clock for breakfast. Even then it is likely not to be ready; if ready, 'tis so rudely prepared, or, otherwise, so inedible, being mere outside trimmings of meat somewhat stewed or parboiled, as almost to cause a riot among them. All the help eat at this time; but for the waiters alone it is a regular meal; for the other help has a regular symposium at or about ten. We think, though they are colored, they are worthy of better treatment, since a laborer is worthy of his hire. What is said...
...weighty statement; and it is a very true one. The more students in our American colleges attach themselves to courses of study which will lead them in practical work in after life, the better for them. Courses in French, English Literature and Fine Arts make good conversationalists; but they help one but little in the stern realities of a legal or business career. Men ought to think previously how they are drifting, before they make their election of courses; for they frequently lose all track of their previous education, their previous convictions, and their previous manner of thinking, by dabbling...
...satisfaction, the books that have been placed on the new cases in the reading room of the library. I was especially pleased to see the writings of Browning, Rossette, Morris, Swinburne and George Meredith, about which most of us know so very little, put where a student can not help laying his hand upon them...
...rendered. It will be remembered that the cups presented to last year's freshman crew were purchased from the surplus money of the nine, which was very generously handed over by the nine for that purpose; and it is only fair that the class should now come forward and help carry out the good work that has been begun...
33Do not suffer from the cold in using the open fire-places, but go to Power's Students' Supply Store, 30 Boylston Street, and get a Harvard or Berkerly stove and be comfortable. Weather strips help to keep out the cold...