Word: helping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...each time he comes home home drunk he throws the whole household into a state of misery and wretchedness. If, then, there are men who do not share the universal regard and love for John himself, and so are not concerned for his welfare, let them at least help in the good purpose of keeping John sober and straight by refraining from giving him liquor, for the sake of a family that is dependent upon...
...inclined, however, to look with an optimistic view upon the present state of our track athletics, and we cannot help believing that we shall be warranted in this view by a renewed interest in the class games...
...bright prospects for success. Although several players of the eleven last year have gone, there still remains a majority of experienced players who will form an admirable nucleus for a new team. They are under the charge of an energetic and competent captain; and moreover are to have the help of a good coach. The earnest way in which the men have started in work is another encouraging sign. The most noteworthy and promising fact, however, is the steady growth of the game in popular college favor. Ever since the first game was played here the increase in interest...
...judgments,-the metaphysical, which asks the meaning of the words good, ill, and obligation,-and the casnistic which asks the measures of the various goods and ills of which men take cognizance, Professor James gives an exhaustive discussion of these three questions. His final conclusions are that we all help to determine the content of ethical philosophy so far as we contribute to the race's moral life; that the stable and systematic moral universe for which the ethical philosopher asks is fully possible only in a world where there is a divine thinker with all enveloping demands; and that...
...other day, going to see John Harvard's grave in the old cemetery at Charlestown, I found the inscriptions on the monument almost. completely worn away by the weather. The one on the eastern side was entirely illegible and it was only with the help of favoring shadows that, after many tribulations, I deciphered the words on the western side. The monument was erected by the graduates of 1828 in honor of the founder of their beloved University. Will not the undergraduates of 1891 see to it that the inscriptions are kept in good condition? The expense would be comparatively...