Word: need
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with commuter-like regularity, he walked into the big, opulent, mirrored barbershop of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for a shave, a manicure, and, if need be, a trim. Afterwards he seated himself on a leather chair near the doors and received those who wished to chat, make quick touches, or offer him investment opportunities...
...believe that anybody wants Harvard to go big time. Harvard doesn't need the kind of reputation that goes with beating Michigan and NorthCarolina--it already has an academic reputation, which is far more valuable...
After all, Harvard should not need athletic scholarships to entice men to Cambridge. The University not only offers an A.B. degree of unmatched prestige value, but also has as good a range of courses as any other college, better taught than in almost any other college...
...need not be corrected by a revision of Harvard's schedule, if some changes are made in the attitude towards athletes here. It must not be corrected by a program of athletic scholarships--that we believe most firmly has no place at Harvard. We can play respectable football by merely loosening the stranglehold that the Administration has on any move to give athletes an given chance. But the crucial concern right now is that no attempt to change the situation involve the firing of Arthur Valpey, who may not be the genius he was hailed as last year...
...speakers at the Agassiz Theater forum Monday put it, there was irony in the topic of their discussion--"Do We Need a College Theater" There was really double irony: one, that a university which is looked up to for its eminence in the liberal arts should have no theater; and, two, that it was on the stage at Agassiz that the late George Pierce Baker's English 47 Workshop gave its performances, performances which first gave voice and action to the plays of some of this country's best dramatists. (Baker left the University for Yale when...