Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only for a short time will the papers repose in a steel vault. At Glen Head, L. I., where he lives, Colonel Isham has ordered a fireproof room to be built where the relics may be kept. There he will prepare them for publication, probably with the help of Professor Chauncy Brewster Tinker, Yale authority on Boswell; perhaps also with the help of Geoffrey Scott, biographer of "Zelide" and translator of her stories. After publication the papers will be occasionally open to view, that scholars who wish to scrutinize the actual writing of a vain, foolish, careful, idolatrous and preposterous...
...Vermonters also agreed that the courtesy and help which they had received from the crimson managers and their assistants and also the sportsman ship on both the field and in the locker room was remarkable...
...that stressed by Mr. Aiken--the unification of the results of the tutorial system. As matters stand now the tutorial assistance offered students meets with no adequate appreciation until the Senior year, when it is brought to bear on the incipient graduate with such force that he cannot help but realize its usefulness. Mere attendance on courses could hardly have equipped him for such a bird's eye view of his college career as that required by Divisional Examinations. Some binding force must have entered into his scholastic work and that force is, in by far the greater number...
Regular lectures and classes will cease during the reading periods in all Government courses except Government 1, and possibly Government 19. Instructors will assign such work as they deem suitable during these periods and in most of the courses will hold occasional section meetings to help the students in their work...
...whether he is solvent; whether he spends his money on charity, the movies, cigarettes, or liquor. Assuming that the Bureau is finding better and more employment for more men--a fact that in the cases of certain individuals has not seemed to be the case--the Bureau can further help those who apply to it and can make itself more representative of the University by assuming some Harvard Indifference--indifference to what is not its business...