Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...case refused. In case of removal from office, which does not take place except at the end of the period of one, three or five years for which the appointment runs, no such assent is necessary. The name of the appointee is simply dropped; the corporation and overseers need know nothing about it, unless they happen to miss his name from the next year's catalogue...
...expected and feared. Now and then a line, especially if it had a pathetic or humerous purport, would come out in quite a human way. The most striking general failing was a tendency to make too many pauses in a sentence, as if the young speakers felt the need of a certain start before making an emphasis, on the reculer pour mieux sauter principle. The lack of by-play was striking, albeit natural, and almost all the participants fell into the error, common to all American -born amateurs, of looking preternaturally solemn-as if the destinies of the stellar system...
...stiff and unartistic without some accessaries as a relief, Professor White's room in its classic statuary and richly colored walls, will prove a most fitting means of a thoroughly artistic display. It is intended that this exhibit shall be thrown open to the public next Wednesday, and we need hardly prophesy, from the enterprise of the management, that the success of the exhibition is assured...
...Harvard, '87, but Yale refused to play on any of those days. Then, finally our freshmen offered to play on any day named by Yale; whereupon the latter refused to play off the tie at all. What motive influenced Yale, '87, to adopt this course is a matter which need not be considered. The facts were that Harvard, '87, was willing and anxious to decide the championship by a third game, and that it offered to play on any day named by Yale; that Yale, '87, refused to play a tie game. Under these circumstances, Harvard, '87, had a clear...
Subjects for the junior forensic examination need not yet be handed in. Due notice will ce given with regard to them...