Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this time of the year the gymnasium is always filled to overflowing during the latter half of the afternoon, and there is therefore much crowding and inconveniencing of one another by those exercising. Of course it is impossible to help this, but still it can be in a great measure mitigated if everyone will only think a little less of his own comfort and have an eye to that of others. If each person on finishing a certain exercise will at once move off and give the next person a chance, everything will go right. At present there...
...that some of us have derived great benefit from our forensic writing; this, however, is in spite of, not owing to the so-called instruction in the subject. But we do not come to college to be benefited by our own unaided exertions, but come here to get that help in our work which only a university can give; and in so far as our time here is given to work in which our instruction is not of the greatest assistance-the time and money spent in coming to college is wasted. Let instruction in forensics be given up, then...
DECEMBER 2. SUNDAY.Appleton Chapel. Rev. James Freeman Clark, D. D., 7.30 P. M. "The sin which easily besets us; and the good which is ready to help...
...kind in the country) does not agree that his education has been of important service to him in his struggle for existence. When in need it did not secure for him a better place than that of car conductor, and as a car conductor it is no help to him. He can pull the bell to stop and start the car, and can make change no more skillfully than if his head had never ached over a Latin grammar or he had never read a French novel. And yet it would not be advisable to argue from this that...
...only way to get these intelligent views is to study for them. The time has now gone past when it was deemed beneath a gentleman's dignity to meddle in the mess into which politics had fallen. No one is now too good to lay hold and help. Education is the only way to make our voters intelligent, and the more college-bred men, who are an educated class in themselves, we send out-men who have an earnest purpose as we believe most men do have,-the better will it be for the country. There has always been...