Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Latest from Wellesley. Grace (just graduated) - "I am going back next year, Mr. Featherly, to become an M. A." Bobby, - "No need of going so far, Grace." - D'apros Lampy...
...profit and pleasure to their classes and to the college; of profit because, as in the case of eighty-nine's glee club, they are able to assist in defraying the expenses of an exceedingly expensive year, and because also they bring out men who in case of need can fill places in the College Glee Club; and of pleasure because, as we have seen, they can give well-extended contributions to the programmes of the open air concerts in the yard, which of late have become such a pleasant feature of the warmer season of the college year...
...entertaining French readings given by Prof. Bocher and Cohn, suggest the need of a similar course of German readings. The popularity of the German courses shows the interest in that language which is felt by the students at large. A course of translations and readings from the higher novelists would aid materially in vivifying our German study. We do not want to propose what will overtax the already burdened German department, but we can promise, in behalf of the students, that any effort in the direction of a course of evening readings, will be appreciated...
...need for increased bathing accommodations in the gymnasium is greatly felt this year. Men are crowding in daily in greater numbers than have ever been seen before...
...principal of all success, the ambition of unselfish striving after and working for the benefit and amelioration of one's fellow man. It is a remarkable fact that through these three addresses, there runs a spirit of practical Christianity, a desire to impress on those whom they address the need not of dreaming but of work, of work not for the selfish and narrow advancement of self, but for the nobler, grander love of helping those who, through ignorance or poverty, are unable to help themselves. It is a thought worthy of consideration, worthy of more than consideration of action...