Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Without realizing the danger, the party who were in high spirits, pushed towards the deeper water. One of the gentlemen and two of the ladies were at once washed into shoal water in an exhausted condition, while the other young ladies finding themselves in great danger called for help. Mr. Thayer and his companion rushed to their assistance but the under-tow was too much for them and all four were swept under, being drowned, of course instantly...
...help a poor beggar." They fled...
...required, but in the evening it is positively demanded. If a proctor meets an undergraduate in the morning without the college dress he is likely to avoid him if possible, as the feeling is not strict in reference to the matter at this time of day. If he cannot help seeing the man, he takes his name and the college and fines him lightly. In the evening, however, there is no escape from a penalty if the student is caught without the wall in ordinary dress. At Oxford, there is among the students, a general disposition to avoid the dress...
...college student: "During the brief while that I honored the University of Pennsylvania with my presence as an alleged student, it was the habit of my class and myself to invest every morning, each of us, in a quarter dollar's worth of roasted almonds, to help while away the weary hours of college life. Just before ten A. M., when the chapel bell would call us from the Continental, Girard, and other neighboring billiard saloons (the university was then on Ninth street, above Chestnut,) we would proceed to Vansant's, then Ninth and Chestnut, for the almonds...
...hardly the function of the college to use its degree bestowing power in such manner as either to help or overthrow any politician. Its officers have nothing to do with Butler's chances at the polls, or with his popularity as a demagogue. Their duty is simply to see that the university suffers no damage as an institution of learning and a teacher of morals. It is dedicated to "Christo et Ecclesiae," and has "Veritas" for the motto on its coat-of-arms; and what has Butler to do with Christ and His Church or with "Truth?" If it discovers...