Word: helping
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...effects of a poor memory are likely to be felt more in our future course than they ever have been yet. Whatever may be a man's occupation, a good memory cannot help being of importance to him. A lawyer will find it very desirable, if not absolutely indispensable, to remember, at once and without continual reference to the books, those cases and decisions to which he wishes to refer. Of course, a good memory cannot take the place of forcible and clear argumentative powers, but it can be made a powerful auxiliary to them, and most of our eminent...
...rest and enjoyment. The lawyer in his cases, the minister in his sermons, the business man in his records and copies, the author in his daily jottings and quotations from books too rare or expensive to be within his purchasing power, - all these may find a most valuable help from this "ready writing." Indeed, everybody seems to be so busy nowadays that one cannot but be reluctant to bring forward any pursuit or study that is not itself saving of time; but this is just what shorthand is, and a year's uninterrupted practice of an hour...
That those who manage our State and national affairs are not altogether perfect, and that something is lacking in our political life, is evident, and so many a one, desiring to help in amending it, calls upon the class he considers the best, be it scholars, gentlemen, or women, to join in the good work and to "purify our politics." In our own opinion honest men are most to be desired by all who hope for a better administration of public affairs, yet an appeal to the honest men of the country to come forward to the rescue would probably...
...reader, he ought to be allowed to figure the characters and incidents in his own mind without having his ideas shocked by the sketches of some misnamed "artist," who attempts to depict scenes of which he seems not to have the faintest conception. To illustrate a book to help the understanding is a useful field for the pencil, but to illustrate for the sake or helping the imagination, or, what is worse, for the mere sake of advertising, is in most cases a miserable failure. I say in most cases, because a few novelists - Dickens, for example - have been...
...full discussion, had been deemed inadvisable. He suggested that, in view of the excellent financial condition of the club, the following measures be taken by the new Executive Committee: First, that a man be employed to be constantly at the boat-house, whose duty it shall be to help members with their boats, to take proper care of boats after use, and to prevent all trespasses on the club premises; second, that the house receive a coat of English paint, of which it stands in need, at an estimated outlay of one hundred and ten dollars; and, third, that fresh...