Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent years Harvard fencing teams have been handicapped by the necessity of placing one man in all three events. That inconvenience has been remedied this year, the fencers being confined to one event. This change is expected to help the team materially...
...colleges throughout the country this afternoon for the Times Current Events Contest, as described elsewhere in today's CRIMSON, is but the third that has taken place since the inception of the plan, and already it has reached the dignity of an institution. The advantages of any scheme that helps develop an intelligent reading public are apparent. Equally obvious is the desirability of encouraging an interest in affairs of the day among a class that will supply many of the future leaders of the nation, and these two factors help explain the interest aroused by the contest...
...Fine Arts and such others as these five may select. The holders are eligible for reappointment in case such re-appointment may seem desirable. If in any year, no suitable candidates appear, the sum available is to be set aside in a separate fund, which may be used to help the Harvard University Press, defray expenses incurred in publishing Fogg Art Museum publications and the work produced by any of the Shady Hill Research Fellows...
Professor Ben D. Wood of the Educational Research Department at Columbia is the originator of the "Cumulative Education Record Forms." He, friend of English Master John A. Lester of The Hill, spoke to him about his forms, how they could help the school, how the college might be aided by them in its annual selection of potential freshmen. Dr. Lester and Headmaster Wendell benefited much from Dr. Wood's "cumulative forms" in devising the Hill method of recording progress and achievement...
...Wrong. Sin and gin will not help The Nation. Mr. Broun himself has been helped by neither. Tex Guinan has not helped him to courage, or wit, or passion or greatness. A Broadway night club is not a nursery for brave thinking...