Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...every prospect that the dinner itself and the exercises which are to follow it, will amply compensate men for the price of the ticket. All therefore who have not already signed are urged both for their own pleasure and for the sake of the class to come forward and help to make the dinner a success by going to it. The time is drawing very near when the committee must complete the details of the arrangements; and delay in signing the blue book simply means great inconvenience to them, with no possible gain to anybody...
...letter which he received from Samuel F. McCleary relative to the gift, and it is here published as a voice from the past and as an indication of the interest that the graduates of long ago still have in the University. After reading this very interesting letter, one cannot help thinking, how much better it was to place these relics in the gymnasium, where they will always be prized, rather than present them to some friend who might not have known how to appreciate them. It is greatly to be hoped that others will follow this example...
...revelation to those who have the false idea that Harvard is the place for the rich man's son alone. Year by year the rich man's son alone. Year by Year the opportunity is increasing for earnest, intelligent men to work their way through college. The different help associations here are becoming more and more effective. They serve not to bolster a man through his college course but to open the ways for him whereby he can help himself. They bridge over the hard times and doubtless save many from yielding to the discouragements which beset...
...college also gives much more help to the students now than when Professor Palmer gave his address. The aid fund now yields for yearly distribution $89, 000, against $50,000 in 1887. Systematic help is now given to student desiring vacations, and some few are assisted by the Dean in securing private pupils...
...admission requirements is necessary-a reform which shall effect the purposes which the devisers of the present requirements had in mind. In some way subsidiary reading, in connection with the required books, should be encouraged. No doubt the setting of alternative questions as a part of the examination would help intelligent and ambitious, teachers to improve the English work in their schools...