Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...need the amount of training which they get. Time is often of great importance to them; but their physical powers are in demand, and this double draft upon their energies sometimes costs them their degrees. Men have been induced to enter the professional schools after graduation, that they might help retain the championship for certain sports. The evil of such a course is two-fold. It tends to raise the standard of the sport beyond the capacity of the undergraduate, and thus limits the number that can participate in it. It makes hard work of what was intended...
Next season Harvard cannot help having a good team, and, with a good captain and plenty of practice during April, they will make a good showing...
...himself to be a man of affairs, a thoroughly efficient executive officer, in every way acceptable to the trustees and the best friends of the college, unboundedly popular with the students and influential with prominent people in New York, Philadelphia and other cities, who can and will favor and help the institution. This favorable condition of affairs has effected a work which has sadly been wanting in past years-it has won the alumni to take amimmediate, active, working interest in the college...
Then we should all be aided towards a better choice of our electives, besides the gain to our stock of knowledge. Such aid is of great importance when there are so many courses to choose from, and so many that one wants to take. At present the only help which we get is from the elective pamphlet or by hunting up the various instructors, But such lectures, although not aiming specifically at such an end, would without doubt accomplish it incidentally; and the instructors would be enabled to do much more service to the university, both in instructing its students...
Keble is the most modern of the colleges as it was founded in 1870, it chapel alone costing L30,000. Exeter, Worcester, Wadham, Corpus Christi, Trinity, University and Hereford constitute the remaining colleges, all homes of celebrated men, although smaller and of less consequence than the rest help to make the University of Oxford one of the largest in the world...