Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lowell more than almost any other American has laid away in the storehouse of his thought, - jewels of such worth as these could not fail to and charm his hearers. The poem was well worthy of the occasion and the distinguished and appreciative, though critical, audience. We cannot help deploring that this audience was composed so largely of ladies - and this is said with no lack of chivalric regard. When Harvard becomes a co-educational institution we shall not say a word if the same proportions between the sexes are maintained as those of yesterday in Sanders...
...knew very little of his history a few years ago, and notwithstanding the labors of devoted antiquaries we now know little more than what was the line of his ancestry and how he acquired a fortune, which for the early days of the Colony was considerable, and will help account, together with his private character, for the honorable way in which the early records of Charlestown show that he was received here. Let us go back to 1605 and to Stratford-upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Stratford. We may stretch a point in trying to associate together the name of William...
...subject should be presented to us in the best manner possible, and not in such a way as to drive us to scepticism from sheer indifference. If we are fed on the dry husks of religious conventionalism, we can hardly be expected to develop practical and robust Christianity to help us in our daily life, and not a general shaking up of dead issues." - Herald...
...proud to be in it. There are however, some inequalities that still need to be remedied: I do not think the upperclassmen are quite kind enough in inviting freshmen to their rooms or taking freshmen into their society. It would make us feel better if a helping hand were stretched to us and we were invited to mingle more freely with the other fellows. I think also that now that invidious class distinctions are passing away so fast that the other three classes ought to take more interest in the freshman eleven. We have a good team, and are going...
...Lewis, cook, and help...