Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...need of a fund for a Divinity School library building is made more pressing than ever by the bequest of the late Dr. Ezra Abbot. The library for 4,000 volumes, which will thus come to the school, cannot be received until some fireproof building is provided. Such a building will also be very convenient for the storage of the present library of the school. Fifteen or twenty thousand dollars is considered a sufficient sum for a small library building, which could be erected in the vicinity of the school. This would be very convenient for the members...
...accommodation for so large a collection. A condition of the gift is, that "there shall be secured, as soon as possible, for this condition and for the rest of the Divinity School library, a more adequate and safe place of keeping." The school thus stands in pressing need of a fireproof library building, distinct from Divinity Hall, yet connected with it by an easy passageway. The advantages of such a building would be threefold...
...course of study and thus be led to give little or no attention to the studies of others. One evening or two a week could not be better spent than in listening to these various readings and lectures offered us. We would thus come to feel a need of education in a direction before unattempted...
...matter what his means are, can afford to give some thing. No one can say in this case that he cannot afford to put his hand in his pocket to pay for the support of a team on which he can never hope to play. The money is needed for no such purpose. But is to provide accommodations where all men so inclined can take an afternoon's exercise at small expense. It will need but little from each man, if all will only give their share and that promptly...
...view of the quarter whence they come, considerable importance should be attached to them. Hitherto one great difficulty in the way of reform in our college sports has been that at Yale, where the athletic championship has lain, public sentiment has been unwilling to admit that the need of reform existed. Thus it was the position of the Yale authorities that checked our faculty in its earlier attempts to improve athletics, and the Yale papers have never, within recollection, advocated athletic reforms. Under these circumstances an article from a Yale pen, calling for a higher standard in college sports...