Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very good start on the season's practice. If they continue in the faithful work which they have undertaken we will send out an eleven this fall which Harvard will be glad to encourage and support. Let no one overlook anything which can aid them in this work and help to crown their final efforts with success...
...these we think an inter-collegiate monthly would be welcomed as much as by the large majority of students. The college journalism is not enjoyed by the mass of the students. Would not an intercollegiate publication do much to awaken an interest among students in other colleges, and help to increase the sympathy of college men for one another...
...labor of life mean, which they generally do, to earn one's living, these gallant A. B.s have hardly begun their apprenticeship. Even if a lad's father have money enough to keep him from the necessity of work, and his business life be simply the gentlemanly arts of helping to manage the estate and to fill a place in society, he will find a long training is necessary after he has done with Cicero and Homer before he is fit for either employment. Neither Greek nor Latin nor the higher mathematics have brought him a single idea concerning prudent...
...circulate through the country by the media of exchanges. To Mr. Robinson we extend our sympathies, at the same time, however, urging him to remain both where he is so sadly needed and where he can doubtless command a good salary, if their college press is able to help him out." For real imbecility of language and sentiment we must commend this last sentence to students of English literature, while all readers will recognize the beauty of the motives that urge men to speak so politely of a gentleman who, for good and apparent reasons, declined to enter their service...
...write the paper with distinguished excellence, and to the other with reasonable credit. If instructors are not willing to conform to one of the most prudent regulations of the college, it is to be hoped that the authorities will direct their attention to them and help them realize that it does require somewhat more work to write a paper than to make...