Word: helping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...classes will shortly be canvassed for their unpaid pledges, and we hope to see every man redeem his pledge and help on this movement, even if he does not expect to see the consummation...
...conditions which surround him in the large cities, both southern and northern. For this reason, Tuskegee has always devoted itself especially to the training of farmers. At the commencement exercises, addresses are always given on practical problems which confront the negro population of the surrounding districts. But for the help of the better elements of white population the negro race could never have made the wonderful progress it has in the fifty years of its existence in freedom. The feeling between the races is constantly improving as the negro becomes more self-respecting and more worthy of the respect...
...believe, as a rule, in maintaining piously the old Harvard traditions. But we cannot help liking the way 1914 is setting out to smash one cherished Senior precedent of past years. The few men intending to leave at Mid-Years have, so we are told, responded with a surprising lack of the old-time procrastination to the Photograph Committee's appeal, and a good share of them have sat for their pictures already. The other Seniors, who are receiving the Photograph Committee's circulars this morning, can help the Album and the Committee very much by showing equal promptness. "Abbe...
...probable results of such efforts though admiring their purpose. "The transformation of the spirit of a great university is a great task, and the larger part of this task must be done by the students themselves. It may fairly be questioned whether Harvard students are prepared to help create that common college spirit that demands more or less of conformity: whether they are prepared to sacrifice any considerable amount of that precious freedom of the individual which has its great virtues as well as its defects...
...late years the University crews have spent the spring recess in Cambridge, except in 1908, when the crew spent a few days at Annapolis. This trip should give a good deal of stimulus to the early season rowing and help develop the speed of the crew over the two-mile course...