Word: helping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...service which this will do, the stronger binding of past graduates to the college is an important one. Again it will help to keep more in sympathy graduates and under-graduates. It is nearly impossible for graduates of many years standing, especially when they reside in distant states or countries, to keep in accord with undergraduate opinion and action. We are often misunderstood by those outside the college, and not seldom by those who were once in our position. Therefore it seems to us that the magazine will help to remedy this difficulty which is not, after all, so inconsiderable...
...cent. will ever make noted athletes. You can all develop strong, robust bodies. You can strengthen your wills and characters, and in the many opportunities this university affords you can all use your natural talents and gifts. Nor is there need that your lives should be selfish; each can help his fellows. Stimulate their enthusiasm; purify, uplift, enoble. Live for the future; remember that in a few years you will be called upon to assume great responsibilities. Live so that in a few years you will be fit for the society of a pure, noble, refined woman. You will...
...given what they had unquestioningly to the coming set of young men of whom they knew nothing. They gave it to their Alma Mater as a token of their appreciation of the priceless gifts they had received from her hands, and in a knowledge that what they gave would help some unknown person in the future over the same difficulties over which they themselves had been helped. One cannot go through Harvard with his eyes open without realizing more and more this priceless debt that he owes to those who have gone before...
...brought together in a social way. There are very few times when anything like a genuine spirit of class attachment exists to make men feel that the ties of classmateship are something more than a mere name. The few class meetings which are held during the college course help in a slight way to promote this feeling of attachment to the class and a realization of what a class really means and stands for; but there is hardly anything which knits a class together more firmly than the class dinners. The junior dinner is always a good beginning...
...against Tufts, at this time no little adverse criticism was heard against the policy adopted. It was claimed that while Yale was getting all the good of very sharp practice games, Harvard was wasting her time over teams which were far too easy for her, and which could not help making her playing somewhat demoralized. But the nine had had experience last year in playing professional teams early in the season, and knew that in the end it was better to begin with small nines and work up to professional teams when they were able to meet them and when...