Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...food. In the evening we fried it in a large aluminum pan; in the morning we boiled it. We made our bed and sleeping bag of bearskin. To keep warmer we both slept in one bag, and, taken altogether, we were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point. Our couch was formed of rough stones; we never quite succeeded in getting it even tolerably even, and our most important business throughout the winter was, therefore, to bend the body into the various positions...
...needs a large number of public servants to help him in his duties. These he is in duty bound to use solely for that purpose. He has no more right to give a place to a congressman in return for a vote than he has to give him a piano out of the public treasury. Such a policy is dangerous as well as odious. If he confines his influence on legislation to its proper sphere he can lead the people but he can never drive them. Corrupt conditions of spoils may seem for a time to cause prosperity...
...considerable skill, which cannot be acquired all at once. There are many heavy men, however, who, although not having the necessary skill and qualifications for this event, are well fitted to throw the hammer; and as out-door work is practically assured from now on, all who can help the team in the weight events are urged to come out at once...
...teams, because of being put on probation for deficiency in college work. If a man of some athletic ability comes here, interests himself in things which will be of benefit to him alone, and is unwilling to do what he can just as well as not to help a thletics in the University, aside from what he will get out of it for himself, he is rightly looked upon as a thoroughly selfish and ungrateful person who cares only for his own good. And yet this apathy cannot be regarded with any more contempt than that...
Addressing especially the Volunteer Committee, Mr. Gilder said: You young men are going to learn more things in your tasks of philanthropy than may be at first apparent, and I believe you are going to do much more good than you may have hoped to do. You will help other people, of course; but not only those with whom you now come in contact, but the communities in which you live. You will get a knowledge of the thought and life of the masses of the people; you will get interior views of economic and social problems which will...