Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Such an excuse is unworthy of any weight. Let them procure the money by any means, but let them see to it that our death-traps be made decently safe. Not one of the gentlemen who represent the corporation would allow such a thing if he could personally help it, we are sure, and why then cannot the corporation as a body somehow gain foresight enough to do what each member of it would do singly? This playing with danger is not to be encouraged...
...lift the upper platform, and carry the injured into the boat house. Among the hats, umbrellas, and textbooks, which went floating off with the current, came the four crews, rowing with all their strength. They ran their boats on shore, and rushed out to be of any possible help. There was no confusion, however, after the first few moments. The students, as a whole, acied with remarkable coolness and presence of mind. Doctors and carriages were down in a few moments, and the victims of the accident were tenderly carried to their rooms...
...change, in the universities to their present constitution, was caused mainly by the fact that the state granted to them material help, but required, on the other hand, the right of co-operating in their management. The course of this development was different in different European countries, partly owing to divergent political conditions and partly to that of national character...
...Students may be divided into three general classes. First, those that regard the college and all that pertains to it as a great joke, to whom study is the varies stranger, and to whom time exists only to be killed, and the devil is usually at hand to help them kill it. Second are those who, while they appreciate the value of a college education, let a spirit of indolence or overweening interest in other matters draw them from their duties. The third class commonly known as 'digs,' are those who possess a stern sense of duty, or in whose...
...society men-the moneyed gentlemen, the unemployed, come quite as much as from the opposing class, the employed, the office-holders of the future. The interest of the unemployed must be awakened before the Union can hope to do really valuable work. But how can the Union here help men to form good opinions and how excite an interest in the non-working class? It would do much we think in imitating the example of the Cambridge Union. Here the conditions are much the same as at Harvard, yet the Union thrives there. In the first place...