Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...desks of the instructors, and to print them in the form of a monthly supplement. At all events we shall try the experiment once, and see how it works. The instructors, we are glad to say, show the warmest interest in the scheme, and have kindly given us help and advice. They feel, as we do, that such a supplement will react on the literary work of the students. They realize that not only will it be an assistance in the formation of a good style for men to see their own work in print, but that the possibility...
...sorry to notice that our other esteemed contemporary, the Lampoon, is, like its sister sheet, the Advocate, seriously involved and compelled to make a public appeal for help. Only a little over a year, it was said that the Lampoon was on a very firm basis financially; but this year it has not obtained the support from the college which it deserves. Students cannot hope to see the smiling face of Lampy once in two weeks, unless they are willing to give the editors their financial support. With a thousand under-graduates, and only three college publications, all occupying different...
...hands were bound up in strips of leather, which strengthened the hand and broke the force of the blow. The contestants fought until one held up his hand as a sign of defeat. Milling and blows below the waist were allowed, and, in fact, everything which could help to defeat an opponent...
...right direction, if the wishes of the majority of students are to be consulted. The overseers and corporation are the persons who have the power to say whether such things as voluntary prayers shall or shall not be; but a favorable vote on the part of the faculty cannot help having an influence on them. Therefore, this action of the faculty ought to encourage all the signers of the prayer petition...
...being carried on with success at other colleges? No, we think not. We feel sure that, now that examinations are over, you will come forward and avert the pending misfortune; but, because the amount necessary to be raised is so ridiculously small, do not, therefore, think that your help is not needed. And yet do not look upon the Co-operative Society as an object of charity. and think that you are doing it and the University a favor, in thus coming to its rescue. You are, on the contrary, making an investment which will yield you a handsome return...