Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...water find their way to the Morgue. The lower half of Paris is covered with sores, hideous sores, like those of the patriarch of Uz, and every day she sits down by the river side and scrapes herself with the rough potsherds of disease and violence. Hence the need of a Morgue. Here is brought the man who slipped while working on the quai, and fell in and was drowned. Hither comes the remnant of the drunken sot who reeled from the bridge at midnight and went down with a sullen plunge into the cold, dark waters which rush beneath...
...enters the river to that when he is lifted from its bosom and borne to face the jostling crowd before the glass. How gaily the body floats! The last spark of life is extinct, the jaw has fallen, the eyes are glazed the limbs dangle listlessly abroad. What need of haste? It has plenty of time. It ventures out timidly toward the middle current. No one notices the livid face, floating like a mask upon the yellow Seine. Now it sinks and now it rises. Now the wavelets of the surface ripple around the protruded chin...
...established, we will not be constantly hearing the complaint that students are too often slaves to their scholarships. Surely under the present state of things, students are not blamable for their slavery. However, were the system of marking more just, more universally definite and stable, then the student needing a scholarship need not be forced to consider whether this or that instructor would rob him of, or assist him to the needed money...
...Harvard and Yale are endeavoring to get each others views on the new pitcher's rules adopted by the league, so that their pitchers can train according to the rules which will be adopted by the convention. It would seem, that there was no great need of a convention," says the Student...
...take part in the election of nearly all the delegates. Secondly, the classes would be represented according to their seniority; for the offices of the athletic organizations and the positions on the several papers are mostly held by upper-class men. This is an important consideration, for there is need of experience in college matters, in order to effect an intelligent discussion of the topic which is brought to the attention of the committee. And yet by giving each class two delegates, no class would be entirely without representation. Thirdly, a committee chosen under this plan would have many...