Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale University Boat Club proposes to produce Gounod's "Faust" this winter with the help of some professional talent from New York...
There should be no doubt manifested by '86 in regard to accepting immediately the challenge of the Harvard freshmen. Nothing will have more power to cement the old time friendship of the colleges, and help to make them forget the late difficulty, than these races from which no danger of a quarrel or misunderstanding can ever be apprehended. [Columbia Spectator...
...Wilfred Blunt writes to the London times, appealing to the public for help to defray the cost of the defence of Arabi Pasha, as, he says, the trial has assumed the character of a great state inquiry, and his (Mr. Blunt's) financial back is not strong enough to bear the load...
...expressions are bold and radical, and, it must be said, will have a considerable weight as representing the views of a large class of people in this country on the subject. And yet the fairer class of people, while receiving his criticisms for what truth they contain, cannot help perceiving how violent and one-sided are his charges. It is not the system of college sports that is wrong, but the excesses into which those sports may, but, as we think, have but little...
...Acta is "pained to note the downward career of the gentleman who obtained considerable prominence of late, owing to the relations between his thumb and the Harvard Boat Club. Whatever our feelings may be toward the gentleman in regard to his action in the late controversy, we cannot help dropping a tear of sadness when we think of his having sunken so low as to be nominated for the legislature of Massachusetts. Such depravity is simply awful...