Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...four have been sold this year. Such support is not deserved. The nine is playing a good game, and, at any rate, students ought to recognize what a hard effort the captain and players are making. A large attendance at games with the accompanying enthusiasm is a palpable help to the nine; would not the students seem unappreciative if they should make the loss of this help one more obstacle for the nine to meet...
...mind the country," they say, "just pass this law for us." With such a state of things, is there not need of patriotism? And if there is need of intelligent men who will sacrifice themselves for their country, it is to the coming generation that we must look for help. It is to aid in this cause that we are getting an education. College training is not for making men better able to make money than their fellows, or to teach them to be sharp enough to outwit those less fortunate than themselves, but it is to make men broader...
...great part of the Latin in our language we can account without recourse to the help of Norman-French. That our philosophical and metaphysical terms should be Latin and Greek is perfectly natural, when we consider that Latin continued to be the language of philosophy to the time of Bacon, and that Aristotle and his commentators were for many centuries the chief intellectual food of Christendom. At the time when our literature had its first great development, all the books which scholars read were Latin books, and it was inevitable that they should show in their language the effect...
least, of the inflections of ordinary speech, we cannot help feeling as we follow the dialogue that the words do actually convey ideas. There may be other ways of accomplishing the same appreciation of the language, but in our methods of education they are not easily manageable, so that it is almost through dialogue alone that we can produce this impression...
...ethical value of knowledge as training for the attainment of the end for which we are living? Before answering this let us consider what is the end towards which we are striving. We regard the world as striving towards perfection and our end is accomplished if we help it in that province over which we have control, that is by the elevation of society...