Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This school preaches the gospel of education through self-help and lays stress on the importance of manual work in the development of intellectual and moral worth...
...does not follow, however, that this is the only solution of the dilemma. The object of the present canvass is to get the opinion of the whole University, and this can only be done if everyone takes an interest in the problem. The CRIMSON is willing to help in every way possible and will welcome any helpful suggestions...
This seems like a radical statement, but we cannot help feeling its truth. Athletes themselves admit that the practice is often drudgery, and its greatest pleasure is the feeling of strength that accompanies the gradual perfection of team play for the intercollegiate games,--the real tests. Shall we increase our periods of practice out of all proportion to our games, or shall we organize the football team in November and the baseball team for Commencement week? In either case the interest of the participants will be decreased one hundred-fold, and of that there can be but one result--intercollegiate...
...because they do not think that the Union dance will be sufficiently amusing. Of course it won't be amusing if they are determined that it won't be. The Union dance should above all be a class affair, and every man in the class should be willing to help to the best of his ability to make the dance a success. The former Union dances have been highly successful, because the committees have had the support of their classes. Has the class of 1909 less class feeling than the others? It unfortunately appears so from the present outlook...
...struggle to get an education, he resolved to found a school where the poorest boys and girls might learn and at the same time pay all the expenses of their education. This resolution was carried out in the Idaho Industrial Institute which he founded eight years ago with the help of five or six friends. Twenty students were admitted at that time. Today the school has increased to a remarkable degree and still there is a waiting list of over 200 who cannot be accommodated. The lecture will be open only to members of the Union...