Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feel compelled to comment upon a recent letter, in the Nation, on the "American School at Athens." Although the writer of the letter in question signs himself "A Well-wisher," we cannot help feeling that his manner of showing his good will is in somewhat questionable taste. It is a well known fact that the society intend in time to enlarge the possibilities of the school as quickly as the money that is needed is forthcoming. The appointment of a permanent sub-director, who shall be under the direction of the director but who shall always remain at the school...
...while crossing the road, got stuck in the mire. Her agonizing and despairing howls for help soon brought to her side the ever-present guardian of the fair sex. He clasped the luckless maiden in his manly arms, and supporting her weight on his manly bosom he carried her to a place of safety. The maiden was so overcome that she could only express her gratitude in tears. Rumor has it that there will soon be a closer bond of union between '85 and '86. [Cornell...
...regular game. Until then there is sufficient work to be done by the new men to keep them busy if they are to attain anything like proficiency in the many elements of this popular sport. A few days of preliminary out door practice might also do much to help the nines before they are called upon to begin their steady playing...
...their operations a veil of general secrecy is cast; the location of the meeting hall is unknown, and the very existence of the fraternity seldom referred to by its members in conversation. Many fellows, moreover, have no friends outside of the fraternity and no more acquaintances than they can help...
...Indeed a profession is over-crowded only in so much as it is filled up with these inferior men. The moment you give these men a higher place in this profession, that moment you ennoble the profession itself. But we have seen that this is just what scholarships help to do. Scholarships are the incomes of funds devoted to the purpose of general education. Economically they can do no more injury to the professions than can any other funds devoted to the same purpose, - than funds, for instance, appropriated to college buildings, books for the library, or to any other...