Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...these men a pleasanter and more wholesome resort that the present project has been started; but the promotors hope that it will do more than this, for it is proposed to form a committee of students, who will visit the rooms at stated periods, and who will endeavor to help the men, as opportunity occurs, with advice and sympathy and encouragement...
...been stated frequently by those who have studied the matter carefully, that what the workingman of today needs most is a sympathetic friend, and a number of our students have proven by experience that these men readily respond to kindly proffered help of this sort...
...ends have covered their positions in excellent form throughout the season. Their fault is that they do not help the runners enough on the offensive. For substitute end, Richardson has been doing good work. In spite of his light weight he seems to break up or sift through interference and is always at the right spot. Bull has been showing up well as an end, tackling fiercely and running hard and well, though showing greenness and tackling too high. Graydon tackles well but is nursing an injury, and Lewis, though first-rate on following the ball, often overruns...
...club must then be built up slowly and it will offer a promising field for the energy of every one who wishes to help the cause of debating. It is an excellent opportunity for the members of the class of 1900 to show that they have tenacity of purpose, and a capacity for able management. They can succeed if they make up their minds...
...flung suddenly, when fast asleep, out of a car-window into a river manages to swim, with one shoulder broken, to the shore. Upon crawling up he hears behind him from the wrecked and sinking cars a woman's voice begging help. The man goes back into the river, crippled as he is, but is too late. The woman perishes before her rescuer can reach her, who nevertheless brings back to land and life a man lying on the car who cannot swim. Clarence Morgan of Buffalo, manager of the Depew Improvement Company, a young Harvard graduate of the class...