Word: helping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...show you how much impression our debates make throughout the country, only a short time since, I heard from a man in a North Carolina college, asking for help in the question of the debate in which I took part. Only a few days previous to this application, I had a letter from an Illinois college asking for some directions, and last year I got a dozen or more such requests. In the constant growth of college interests, debating and speaking will have a chief place, and the success of the work already done in these matters is heartily recognized...
...duty of the government to supervise these matters. Of course the state cannot interpose any opposition to voluntary effort; where people spontaneously undertake to make roads, build schools and found charitable institutions they relieve the government of some of its duties and the government is generally willing to help them with subsidies. Yet whatever private charities may do, the fact remains that this does not absolve the government from their responsibility. The state ought to superintend everything and there are some things which it ought not to have outside its own power. For instance, there ought to be no system...
...Concerts were given at Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland, Indianapolis, vansville, St. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans, Montgomery, Atlanta, Nashville and Lakewood. Preparations for the Prom. are almost completed, and the latest radical change is in omitting the senior german. This is the smallest of the three germans, and its loss will help rather than hinder the Prom. events, as the time is now limited to two evenings. The plans for last year's Prom. have been re-adopted in nearly every case and practically everything is now arranged. As usual, the boxes are to be sold at auction...
...hope that these few words may help you to bear your sorrow, we extend once more our heartfelt sympathy...
...that a baseball captain for the coming year has finally been chosen every member of the University who has its honor at heart will do all that lies in his power to help to turn out the best possible team, whether by coming forward as a candidate, if he likes ballplaying, or by giving his moral support to the nine if he cannot try for it himself. We mention the "honor" of the University advisedly, in spite of the fact that in Saturday's issue we deprecated its undue use as a motive for supporting University teams, since the honor...