Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game is so complicated, so confused, and covers so much ground, that no referee, however honest and determined, can see half of what is going on, especially since the judges, who were originally intended to help him in securing fair play, have developed into captains of their teams, and purposely distract his attention and increase his difficulties...
...northern cities, and it will be a pity if our college buildings do not share this transformation. We have a little ivy here and there. And no one who has observed what a change this little makes in the dingy, dusty, dreariness of the older buildings, can help regretting that the college has not taken the trouble during past years to set out more vines. The autumn coloring of these ivy leaves during the past few weeks has been most beautiful. And when we think how rapidly the vine grows and how easily all our older buildings might by this...
...England, a well-timed riot or two and a judicious use of explosive are often necessary, some say, to call the attention of Parliament to any crying evil. Now we do not wish to make comparisons any more odious than necessary, but we cannot help feeling that there is quite a parallel case near at hand; and those of us who are not over-gifted with the calm and tranquil mind, now and then regret the extinction of certain good old college customs, that have in times past, constrained the attention of our college Parliament in a similiar manner...
...only one day off at Thanksgiving to us Harvard students tends to defeat this custom, which is as old and settled almost as the country itself of "home-gatherings" as regards the majority of the students. Of course we all love our Alma Mater, but we can't help wishing for the one or two more "grains of corn...
...directions of the inexorable bed-maker or landlady. Most unhappy of all appear the Freshmen who make their purchases under the supervision of an indulgent father, guardian, or uncle, and who seem to say by their conscious and almost guilty look, "Yes, we are Freshmen, but we really cannot help it." It is a curious fact, and one which cannot fail to be observed, that the faste of the Freshmen are nearly always diametrically opposed to the desires of officiating chaperon. Thus one constantly hears fought out, with an energy worthy of a higher subject, such questions as the relative...