Word: helping
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...desire for some expression of the respect of the Senior Class for its Alma Mater; but this can be done fully as well in some less ostentatious way, by a fund given to the Library for purchasing books when they first come out, or by any other permanent help to some department of the University...
...elocution, especially when we remember what a wretched farce recitation in that study used to be. A step in the right direction was taken when an instructor in elocution was appointed for the Senior Class, who devotes a portion of his time to each man who desires it. Such help in one's endeavors for self-improvement is invaluable, and if a similar instructor in English composition were to take the place of the present exercises in that department, few will doubt that all the students, the diligent as well as the idle, would be vastly pleased, and that...
...five o'clock, on arriving at the Dean's office, to my astonishment, I found no one there. There I was, all alone, in the Secretary's room, with but a threshold between me and the President's office, - the seat of those Faculty meetings, which I could never help associating in my mind with the Eleusinian mysteries. It had always been my fondest desire to become an unnoticed witness of one of these meetings. Here was my chance. Could I not conceal myself, and thus witness all the proceedings of the august body? I was aware of the dangers...
...ruin fair Pephredo, help her quench
...required. There is no doubt that if the men were required to write a theme, say once a fortnight, the more obvious faults of their style - if they can be said to have a style - would be so often brought to their notice, that even the dullest could not help correcting them. The College has already taken this matter in hand, as is proved by its requiring the candidates for admission to write short essays at their examination; but it is feared that these requirements, unless carefully kept in the light by those who desire a change in the present...