Word: helping
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...purpose to criticise, but to expound"; yet I cannot help stating the following positions, in which, I think, students themselves will agree...
PROFESSOR PAINE'S recitals will be discontinued during the next week, but will be resumed on the second week, with vocal and instrumental help...
...Brunonian explains that Brown has determined to send no crew to Saratoga for the following "simple" reasons, which cannot help being "satisfactory to the most ardent friend of Brown or the dullest intellect": first, one of their best men could not row, for reasons not made public, and of course they would not send a crew which did not contain all "their best men"; and secondly, they owe "quite a sum" for last year's expenses, and wisely consider that it is best to incur no new debts until the old ones are paid...
...liberty. There should be as many electives as possible; give all free choice; every man wishes a different variety of knowledge. Recitations and lectures should be voluntary, and voluntary in the true sense of the word. No account of attendance at recitations should be kept. Then students, as they help to build up their education, will freely accept a share in the responsibility...
...three trunks, two carpet-bags, a band-box, an umbrella, a bundle of clothes, a parasol, a bundle of tracts, a jar of pickles, some peppermints, a few odd parcels, the usual squalling baby, and a few other indispensables. Of course I was only too happy to help her in any way, i. e. look after her ticket, seat, trunks, parcels, grandson, etc. To cut short, at last the conductor gave us a good start, and we wheezed off at the speed of six miles a week. At about every other telegraph-post, just as the baby was getting tranquillized...