Word: helping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Briefly the comedy shows the effect upon the varied persons of Reinhartz, Pa., of the coming of the superficially absurd, yet clear seeing, deep feeling Susan. She marries Dreary, the swinish skinflint, to help the much-set-upon daughter, Barnabetta. Dreary kindly dies between the acts--having become an insurmountable obstacle in the pursuit of happiness--the step-mother reforms her eccentricities, the daughter casts aside her drudge's guise and blossoms as an Emerson-reading flower of Boston schooling, and in the thrill of the Governor's presence and a lover's kiss the play ends...
...fact that 1,000 students of the university at Syracuse, N. Y., are to earn their way this year in whole or in part, is calculated to awaken the envy of the country colleges, where the opportunities for self-help are limited by the environment. Educational institutions located in cities certainly have an advantage at this point. Men at the young Men's Christian Association College in this city, for earning money than the college boys in Amherst or Williamstown, despite the fact that special effort is made in both Williams and Amherst to get jobs for students who desire...
...will always be a pride to Harvard men to remember those who have done something to help France in this great war; those who served as ambulance drivers or doctors, or as combatants in the aerial service. In testifying to our undying admiration and respect for Norman Prince by the erection of a memorial, we honor ourselves and show our appreciation of his fine spirit and our sympathy for the noble cause for which he died. C. H. FISKE...
...these men to form serious political opinions. The next year or two years, will glide by rapidly and the responsibilities of citizenship and the vote will present themselves all too quickly. A thoughtful choice of a candidate today, sustained by a careful investigation of the different candidates policies will help to form the habit of intelligent voting in the future...
...fact is that at practically all our colleges the passion for athletic victories has carried expenditures to an absurd length. Head coaches are sometimes paid more for their eight-weeks season than a college professor gets for his entire year's work. To help him the coach must also have a regular squadron of assistants trainers and other subordinates, all of them drawing good salaries. No wonder it costs more to put one football gladiator on the gridiron than the average student spends in a whole year at college. Yet some of the institutions which can afford...