Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...these four stories "Dross," and "The Prize that Teddy Won," are quite readable. In fact, "Dross" is fairly vigorous, strong, and decidedly well worked up, though one cannot help feeling that the allusion to the fact that "people in poor districts are not troubled with sensitive nostrils" is in rather bad taste, and that its omission would have improved the general impression which the story gives. The author of "Dross" shows that he has a good command of language, and the story is distinctly the best of the number...
...Association of Colleges in New England, impressed with the real unity of interest and the need of mutual sympathy and help throughout the different grades of public education, invites the attention of the public to the following changes in the programme of New England Grammar Schools, which it recommends for gradual adoption...
...this has a direct bearing on college athletics. A great majority of these young fellows enter some college or other, many of those in the preparatory schools around Boston coming to Harvard. The train which they get at school, especially if they work under Mr. Lathrop, is of immense help to them when they come to run at college. This school training shows itself in two ways when the fellows come to college: first, there is a higher quality of athletics in the entering class and the material can be worked into first class shape in a shorter time...
...Young Men's Christian Association in its report for the first half-year shows that it accomplishes a good deal of work which is unknown to a large part of the college. In a quiet way the association has been going about, giving help to men in college and also doing a certain amount of outside work. Much of this outside work, that among the sailors, that of the committee on visiting the sick, and that at the Boston missions has been carried on in a way attracting so little attention that it may even be supposed that...
Within the college the association has been a decided help. To men who come to Harvard from a distance, and those who are unacquainted with the college, the Association Handbook and the reception committee have doubtless been very beneficial. The disclosure of this practical work which is done by the association may tend to dispel a feeling which has no little hold on the college that the Y. M. C. A. does nothing more than hold religious meetings and send delegates to conventions...