Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Williams College students did rescue work in the Hoosac Valley. The Dartmouth College football eleven plunged perilously by motor from Hanover, N. H. to keep an engagement with Brown University at Providence, R. I. Smith College girls rowed out of their boathouses to help Northampton, Mass...
Flood Control. The press and residents of the Mississippi flood area expressed sympathy but could not refrain from hoping that New England, freshly conscious of what too much water can do, would help expedite Federal flood control legislation...
...those real beings who always seemed to have the time as well as the inclination to help others. Never could it be said of him that he did not gladly pull more than his own weight in the boat...
...hope," said Williams, "that the young man in college today will use a sort of trinity of tools for his education--first book knowledge that is derived from campus and quadrangle; second, overalls in vacation work which will help the student to get the feel of modern business and industries; and third, steamships by which, in vacations either by working his passage or by other methods, the student can get the feel of Latin-America or Europe...
...referee a game now, while in 1948 he will be too far removed from the point of view of a small gang of newsboys to reach them in any such way. Beyond his committee work and his financial aid he will feel that he is too old to help. In exceptional cases age will not interfere but the fact still remains that far more valuable material is lying dormant in undergraduates, who feel that they are tremendously, oh yes, tremendously over-loaded with work. Most of these same students would have nervous prostration after one day of their fathers' routine...