Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...their scholarships under the special provision, when their records as scholars would not entitle them to the least consideration. Now, if a man in easy circumstances - such, I mean, as will afford him the ordinary necessary comforts and pleasures of college life - can have the "gall" to take pecuniary help under a special provision, when really needy classmates of his, who are head and shoulders above him in scholarship, will have to scrape and pinch, or possibly leave college for want of the money he spend on fine apartments or society pleasures, that man I will call contemptible and dishonest...
...work hard enough to be entitled to aid, and because a man who won't work hard, happens to be the grandson of a member of an old class, or a distant relative of a founder of a fund, he is not by that any more worthy of help...
...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...
...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...