Word: helping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spectacles which border closely on the disgraceful. The extent to which the struggles for the flowers have been carried may be well enough when there is no one in the question but men, but to the crowd of ladies who are gathered to watch the sport the sight cannot help becoming now and then revolting. When a man's shirt is torn clean from his back, he is certainly not in a state, no matter what extenuating circumstances there may be, to be in the centre of that crowd of on-lookers. And there is absolutely no reason why these...
...weather has been quite cool here since the crew came, and it is such a contrast to that in Cambridge that the men cannot help doing their best, especially when they realize that they will row against a very fast crew...
...need for him and a more imperative call upon him than the training of the 'varsity crew. We know not what Mr. Keyes's other work may be, and we respect his judgment in deciding which calling has the greater demand upon him. At the same time we cannot help wondering what call can be more loud than that of the university crew at this present moment and all through this spring. Half of the crew is composed of new men, and misfortunes have necessitated serious changes even at this late date. There has hardly ever been a time when...
...complied with as to obviate the necessity of repeating it. But unfortunately matters have so drifted back into old condition that the manager of the nine is obliged again to ask the men to keep away from the bench. It not only interferes with the scorers, but also cannot help having somewhat of a demoralizing effect upon the nine. It is not asking too much of those who want to see the game to take their seats with everyone else behind the ropes...
...general, when one looks over the early numbers of the Advocate and compares them with those of the present year one cannot help feeling that the style of the modern numbers is more artificial, than that of the earlier ones, and lacks some of the force that lies in the straightforward simplicity of the contribution of the last generation...