Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...expenses of one of the most important of the college teams, it is very desirable that not even standing room should be left unoccupied. The play itself is a very clever piece of work, increasing in interest as it progresses; the crew is a most worthy object to help along; the kindness of the Pudding deserves hearty support and so we hope and believe that the students to-night will also show a generous desire to serve their crew's interest...
...evolution of the world, then we have one object in life, to allow ourselves to become his agents. If we will put our own will against his, then we so much hinder the final outcome of God's purpose and our lives have been a hindrance, not a help...
...needs only to do his simple duty, and learn to be expansive, to help the men less favored than himself, to learn that it is, in reality. more blessed to give than to receive. It is at a university that this lesson is hardest to learn; for the life though grand, is apt to be selfish. A man is with drawn from the affairs of the world and shut up with his books and his amusements, so that he needs to be cautions lest he shall be narrowed rather than broadened by his course. He must first...
...Harvard. It is a weak excuse when asked for money to plead indebtedness and then openly to indulge in extravagant amusements. There were thirty-five men in Ninety-five last year who subscribed twenty-five dollars apiece. Ninety-six has just six men who have had the spirit to help their crew along to that extent. Comparatively few can subscribe in so large amounts and yet there are comparatively few who cannot give something. It simply narrows down to this that out of the $2,600 which are absolutely needed to send an eight to New London, only about eleven...
...follow Christ will do two things, it will help men to keep straight themselves and it will help other men to keep straight The education of the world has been done by Christianity, and America, in its politics, in its commerce sorely needs the influence of strong and right-minded men today. It is not that men who do not follow Christ are always sinful, but they are always wasteful. They live out of the main current of history. The grandest truths are not to be entrusted to the poorest specimens of manhood. They need and must have strong...