Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...English literature, and to be unable to write English decently. As to the conditions of life, the questions of political economy and the like, which are of absolute importance to any one who wants to understand the social world in which he is living, there is not the slightest need that he should ever have mastered the rudiments of them...
Every junior ought to make a special effort to be present at the coming class dinner. Those who remember the enjoyable dinner of last year ought certainly to need no further urging to make them sign the book at Bartlett's. Aside from all considerations of mere conviviality, however, the men of eighty-six should spare no efforts to make a success of the dinner, if for no other reason than that it has been several years since a junior class has met with anything but failure in its attempts to hold a class dinner...
...haste to reach the state of "an ideal university," they do not hesitate to go to the other extreme, and retain the one relic of by-gone college discipline which, above all others, marks the primitive stage in the evolution of Harvard toward the desired end. Bachelors of Arts need no longer know Greek, but they are still obliged to be present at prayers 576 times, in order to obtain the coveted degree. Is the university, after all, moving forward...
...their own devotion to notice how many others were in an equally religious frame of mind. Therefore, we recommend to the overseers that in their visits-if they wish to see how much good the students get out of compulsory chapel, they neither pray, nor sing, nor read. They need not fear that their conduct will be out of place, for, we assure them, they will find plenty of others who do not make Chapel their place of worship...
Vassar College is in great need of an endowment fund, and there is much trouble in the board of trustees on account of the financial state of the college. It is said that the present policy of the institution will involve a debt of $24,000 on June...