Word: helping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...means of centralizing our rapidly growing social interests. If the graduates realized this feeling, without doubt they would give us the club. As the mass meeting to be held next Tuesday night will be regarded by them as an expression of our interest in the plan, every undergraduate should help by his presence, to make the meeting a success...
...will be a help to the University to have you come back to us with this loving testimony to the permanent influence of a true, pure, unassuming and manly life...
...advanced, both by enlarging its range and improving its methods, and upon their success in a great and difficult undertaking depended the future rank of Harvard as a seat of learning. At this juncture Mr. Winsor took charge of the Library with the settled purpose of making it a help and a spur to instructors and to students in their daily work, and a source of vital influence in University life. The extension of the Library in 1876 and the accession of some important funds strengthened his hands at the outset. His rules of administration, his plans for the remodeling...
...librarian and as an historian had secured him a wide acquaintance with men both at home and abroad; and every resource of stored knowledge, of personal experience and of influence as a member of the republic of letters, was placed at the command of those who sought his help. Students found him a willing adviser, ready to impart the results of a life of investigation. Instructors were stimulated by his devotion to his own studies, aided by his impartial friendship for every department of learning, and encouraged by his hearty acceptance of every proposition for the improvement and better...
...order or ready made, is sold at lower prices than are asked for the same grades elsewhere. This is the case always; and just now, as the winter trade is almost ended and the spring trade has not yet begun, our prices-for the sake of keeping our help busy-have been made peculiarly attractive...