Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Amherst Student says that Amherst has no intention of leaving the inter-collegiate base-ball league to help form one with Williams...
...looking at the poetry of this issue, one cannot help wishing that the ballad by Mr. Houghton had been inspired by a more optimistic view. The beauty of these verses is not heightened, at all events, by the gloomy theme. The other poems are graceful, but on the whole not characterized by forcible thought. The ideal portrayed by Mr. Fullerton is applicable to poetry as well as to novels...
...authority which reveals to a man his own better purposes, and makes them firmer and finer than they could have become if directed by himself alone." The substance of the elective system is given in a single sentence, fixed quantity and quality of study, variable topic." The great moral help to students under this new ideal lies in the fact that "it uplifts character as no other training can, and through influence on character, it ennobles all methods of teaching and discipline." The one thing demanded under a free choice of studies is that the student should "will to study...
...forgetting, or trying to forget, that any larger colleges exist. But the larger colleges do, and will exist, and if in truth they are the champions, the fact that certain other colleges have first places in another league will neither add to the dignity of those colleges nor help them in their proficiency at base-ball. The case is like that of the University of Pennsylvania, which formed a boating league consisting of itself only, and finding itself number one at the end of a long series of league contests, declared that it was likewise number...
...remarkable fact that through these three addresses, there runs a spirit of practical Christianity, a desire to impress on those whom they address the need not of dreaming but of work, of work not for the selfish and narrow advancement of self, but for the nobler, grander love of helping those who, through ignorance or poverty, are unable to help themselves. It is a thought worthy of consideration, worthy of more than consideration of action...