Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...settled that question once for all by establishing the Athletic Committee, and those gentlemen may as well take Harvard as she is, or go to Yale. Next come those who think foot ball all right as it is, or think the convention would have made whatever improvement can and need be made. These are few in number, and are not very fond of supporting their views with sound arguments. Then comes a large proportion of the students, who agree very nearly with the Athletic Committee; the only point of difference being in most cases that the students wish another attempt...
...paid coach. As far as the first matter is concerned, the Athletic Committee and the Graduate Committee are perhaps better qualified to judge than we are. But I maintain we should insist on being consulted, we should insist on having the facts carefully considered, as far as concerns the need of a paid coach. My private opinion is that the action of the committees is a compromise. They wish to get rid of a man. They see abuses that are not due merely and solely to the use of a paid coach; they don't like to attack...
...peculiar distinction you make between a professional (!) such as Mr. Bancroft, and a paid coach, such as Mr. Lathrop! Perhaps in the past the coach may have been allowed to influence or decide questions foreign to his duties as coach. But that is no reason why we no longer need a coach. Be sure, gentlemen, that you are aiming at the abuse, and have not ascribed results to the wrong cause; be sure also that he whom you have chosen as your adviser is unprejudiced and impartial...
...seriousness, why must the library be closed every day at sundown? The only danger of fire attending any attempt to light it can now be avoided by the use of the new illuminator, electricity. The expense of introducing this would, to be sure, be large; but the need for the improvement is certainly great enough to justify the college in an effort to raise the necessary means...
...subscribe liberally. In the case of the other organizations, however, there are generally opportunities for the management to clear away all debts by the end of the year. So it will be seen that our athletic societies, whatever may be the case with those at western colleges, do not need very much assistance from one another, as nearly all of them are in a great degree self-supporting...