Word: desiderata
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...country track as far as the first bridge above the Lars Anderson, has always been a favourite one with the Vagabond-but it should be avoided when the ground is soggy or the wind is blowing form the southwest over the abattoir. Perhaps it was because neither of these desiderata obtained, or perhaps due to the proximity to the Mt. Auburn Cemetery, that the Vagabond was set to musing on the eternal brevity of all things in general, and the period between then and his examinations in particular. But the sun shone too brightly and the breeze wafted too softly...
Following the example of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, Widener Library will publish from time to time, with the cooperation of a committee of undergraduates of the John Barnard Associates, a list of the Library's desiderata in contemporary poetry. This innovation comes as a result of the inability of the Library authorities, working by themselves, satisfactorily to keep up the collection of modern poetry...
...reason that the lists of desiderata are to be published is that the work will undoubtedly be more successful if it is not limited solely to the efforts of the undergraduate committee or to the efforts of the Library itself. The cooperation of the undergraduates is expected to be of considerable benefit to the work and for this reason the student committee is making a definite appeal to other undergraduates...
...first list of desiderata is therefore published below. Gifts lying out side of these list, however, will also be welcome, duplicates being both desirable and necessary. The volumes on the list printed below includes only first editions, but subsequent editions are also wanted...
...would be invaluable to makers of motor cars, typewriters, adding, sewing, knitting machines-wherever wearing parts are needed. Metallurgists have produced soft, shapable steels. They have devised hard steels which were expensive to "work." But not till last week did any one announce a steel with all the desiderata of the machine builder...