Word: helping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Union regularly. The fact that one man has been nominated for a place on the library board this year who is not a member is an indication of this. The clause in the constitution permitting additional nominations to be made on petition of fifty members fails to help matters much, because the securing of fifty signatures is almost a prohibitive task. Nomination by petition should be made easier. Otherwise there is bound to be a feeling of dissatisfaction in the Union, and this will defeat its primary purpose...
...many undergraduates as possible should send in subjects for discussion to S. P. Clark '14, Holworthy 9. Heretofore the topics proposed have not been sufficiently inclusive. One must be found which will interest students of various departments and activities, and it is hoped that students will prove willing to help the committee in this respect...
...have attained a very full measure of success after graduation. But in the long run the concentration derived from attention to studies has proved the greatest benefit of a college course. To turn the attention of the undergraduate mind more surely to this fact, a number of changes would help. There are two which seem immediately feasible...
...Certainly something should be done to bring the Seniors and their advisees into closer touch. Furthermore, the real advantage of the plan depends on its lasting through the year, rather than being practically forgotten on both sides after the first two or three weeks. One suggestion for Seniors to help their advisees materially is in the requirement for making out study-cards before May 1. Senior advisers should impress upon their advisees the importance of completing this requirement as soon as possible, instead of just before midnight on the last...
There is one thing, however, in which the students themselves must help. Any member of the University who has reason to suppose that any article he misses has been stolen, should at once report the missing article and the circumstances of its loss to the Yard police. However trivial the loss may seem, it is from such clues that detection of the culprit and return of the stolen property have resulted in several instances. Not for his own sake alone, but for the sake of his fellow-students, the loser should co-operate with the Yard detectives in this...