Word: helping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...which we see, because our reason takes part in what we observe. In order to find the points of the compass we must first find a level surface and then by the arrangement of angles we must find the zenith of the sky. A single point however does not help us, and another must be obtained. Looking to the north we can find stars forming circles, and as we go farther north we find the circles growing gradually smaller, till at last they seem almost to stand still. We arrive at the north star but this...
...here at Harvard offer a man especial advantages for forming a clear, firm style, and this will come into play both as a reporter and more particularly as an editor or critic. The college man ought to recognize, however, that it is not so much his style that will help him, as his general fund of knowledge, his disciplined mind, his pleasant manners and sound body...
...raise wages of laborers. Carlisle. E. A. Atkinson, Bost. Her. Nov. 2, '92.-(c) It hurts farmers, McClure, p. 16.-(d) Hurts community by keeping us from foreign markets, Sen. Vest. No. Amer. Rev. 155. Oct. '92.-(e) Increases cost of materials. Dem. Camp. p. 91.-(f) Does not help us against pauper labor. E. A. Atkinson Pop. Sci. Mth. 37, Aug. '90.-(g) Does not benefit the majority, Nation LV. 299.-(h) Infant industries not permanently aided, F. A. Walker, I. J. of Econ...
Nothing which we can do to bring this about will result in any immediate advantage to us, yet it would, we think, be an act of kindness not only to these who are to take our places, but to the University, to do our part to help along the plan of the Appalachian Club. A strong expression of feeling from the University might aid materially in preserving the banks of the Charles from being made a hideous spectacle of factories, wharfs and tenement houses; as well as save them from the ravages of ruthless speculators. All we are asked...
...diminish the necessity of energy on their part. The less calls for action a man responds to, the less strength he acquires. There is danger in all this luxury, danger that the weaker men will go down before it, but, if we use it like men, then it must help us to become better...