Word: helping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...time when excavation should start, two feasible solutions present themselves: to place a mortgage upon the pool; or for the H. A. A. to present the amount lacking, if it is not too large. Then next fall, when the time is opportune, 1918 may contribute its share, either to help in paying off the mortgage, or to reimburse...
While appreciating the charitable motives of the gentlemen who distribute neckties, etc., to the clamoring mockers in Mt. Auburn street, those of us whose studies are interrupted by the pandemonium cannot help feeling that such philanthropy is misplaced, and that the above-mentioned ties would have looked better in the Phillips Brooks House clothing collection. These thoughtless fairy god-fathers are not only adding to the predatory insolence of their parasites, but are seriously interfering with their 'neighbors' chances of two C's and a D at the finals. T. NELSON '18. W. BURRY...
...makes it necessary for them to spend considerable time away from home at such places as Poughkeepsie or New London; this involves the maintenance of an extensive and expensive establishment, which becomes a heavy drain on the general athletic treasury, and encourages the arrangement of 'profitable' football schedules to help defray the expenses of the crews. We believe it to be the best interests of intercollegiate boating to encourage a greater number of short races in each season between the various rowing colleges, these races to be rowed whenever possible in home waters. This ought to make for the spirit...
...secretary, has "endeavored to secure, through the co-operation of instructors, a greater attention on the part of students to clear and correct English in written work in all subjects. It has also taken steps, in the case of students whose use of English has been unsatisfactory, to help these students to remedy their deficiencies...
...have told me that they were going in for military training because it was less technical and could be learned more quickly and easily. If they are right it is the very strongest argument for men of intelligence, and men who have followed a trade or profession which would help to make them useful in the navy, to take a course in naval training...