Word: helping
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...environment that the volume has an extra claim to the welcome of the public. The introduction--but twenty pages long--gives all the facts necessary to an understanding of Gray's work. Mr. Rideout has succeeded in weaving into this brief narrative facts enough of description and criticism to help the reader to an idea of Gray's personality, his genius and his limitations. The price of the book...
...catalogue is the second help. Some subjects are most easily followed up by turning to the shelves first, but with others it is better to use the catalogue, where everything about or by an author may be found under his name. The subject catalogue is almost unique, the only other system with a similar principle being that used by Yale. Elsewhere a "dictionary catalogue" is used. In the subject catalogue there are about five hundred main subjects under which are grouped minor subjects in the same general field. Thus the general subject "Languages" is divided into countries and these...
...know in founding universities in this part of the country. I believe that, with proper movements within us, the time will come when Yale, instead of seeing in other colleges rivals, will be the head of a great movement in which the growth of every other college will help the growth of Yale and in which our relations to colleges and schools alike will be such that we can be leaders in the education of the country in a sense which would be impossible if we pursued a policy of educational isolation and confined our work to our own domains...
These classes are not organized for historical or literary purposes, but are intended to supply a course in daily devotional study and to help men in their every day life...
...nature of the work, which is three-fold, is philanthropic rather than religious. A man is given a family to look after by the Associated Charities of Boston, and it is his duty to help it in any way he can, and to make occasional reports. The Home Libraries, which are connected with the Children's Aid Society, are distributed in batches of twenty books throughout the tenement districts, for the use of children. It is the duty of the man who undertakes this work to meet the children in his group once a week, and to comment on their...