Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lectures by Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson and ex-President Andrew D. White of Cornell, the Harvard Union shows commendable activity. Addresses by such successful speakers and prominent men as Col. Higginson and Dr. White will not only be of great interest and value to a student audience, but will help to strengthen and make more lasting the already wide-spread and genuine interest in public speaking at Harvard...
There will be no professional coach this year other than Mr. Keefe who will coach the battery candidates again. Most of the coaching will come from the graduates, several of whom have already signified their willingness to do all with in their power to help the nine, chief among them being Clarence Smith '96, the old pitcher and first baseman...
Every Harvard man who will be in New York during the recess should attend the tournament at least once and, by the price of at least one admission ticket, help to pay the expenses of the match...
That these objections are well taken in many ways, it will be evident to all, and it also seems as if plans similar to those suggested above might help to remedy the difficulties. The extension of the exercises over two or three days would at the same time relieve the pressure on Class Day and also give more chance for the class to entertain as a whole...
...Yale Union, in which he discusses the action of the conference on intercollegiate debating held at New Haven last spring. I shall not discuss the questions considered at the conference but I wish to correct several of his statements of fact. He says that "The utter prohibition of faculty help proposed by one of the Harvard delegates was considered impracticable." We did not ask for "The utter prohibition of faculty help." We only asked that such help be limited to the giving of information. We opposed only the revision of speeches by members of the faculty and their participation...