Word: helping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...disinfect the imagination; they fill the memory with light and fragrance. Whatever a man's station, whatever his other opportunities, there is one Company from which he can never be excluded, and it is that of the master-spirits of all the centuries. When one reads Boswell, he cannot help thinking what a privilege it would have been to belong to Johnson's set, but only consider of what a Club every scholar may be admitted a member. "Study," said Montesquieu, "has been for me a sovereign remedy against the disgusts of life, and I have never had a vexation...
...reading such books as chiefly deserve to be read in any foreign language, it is wise to translate consciously and in words as we read. There is no such help to a fuller mastery of our vernacular. It compels us to such a choosing and testing, to such a nice discrimination of sound, propriety, position, and shade of meaning, that we now first learn the secret of the words we have been using or misusing all our lives, and are gradually made aware that to set forth even the plainest matter, as it should be set forth, is not only...
...time is the best that any one of us can do. We are not called upon to worry now about the questions which seem to be very important for the future, but our duty is to do what we can to solve the problems of today and to help our own generation. How, then, can a young and well educated man best serve his own time? First what can we do to better the social conditions of our generation? Doubtless there are arising great problems which call for hard work from skilled men, but we are not all needed...
They deserve help and they need it. Not only are the rarer books of reference valuable, but also the common textbooks. The more of these available, the more men of restricted means will be relieved from the necessity of purchases...
...astonish outsiders and would, for that matter, surprise most Harvard men. We do not refer to the scholarships, the loan fund, and the like, the benefit of which is well-known; but to the quiet work done by individuals for those who are seen to be in need of help. Wealthy men here, not generally given the reputation of having concern for their fellow-students, have been known time and again to give large sums for men whom they had seen about them, and, in the giving, to keep their own personalities wholly in the background. Members of the Faculty...