Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...such as that concerned with the monopoly agitation, and railroad legislation, as well perhaps as the cognate question of the general relations of the railroads and the State, particularly in this country, the instruction as yet given is undeveloped and inadequate. That is to say we would urge the need of a special course modeled after the plan of Political Economy 6 or 8 for the discussion of this subject, not merely in its economic but also in its political or constitutional bearings. In default of this the University, or perhaps the Finance Club might secure some publicist or specialist...
...cannot refrain from calling the attention of the freshmen to the great importance of systematic and continued physical exercise. At a college where physical exercise is voluntary, it is too frequently the case that the students will neglect such exercise, or only those give it their attention who need it least. At this season of the year it is natural that the gymnasium should be deserted and that those who are accustomed to give the proper attention to exercise in the gymnasium during the winter months, should feel that their time can be spent to better advantage at present...
...achievements of the Harvard brass band last Monday evening are too well known to need any description here, and made a fitting end to a brilliant record of music, mud, fun and glory...
...your right as you enter stands a case of rare Roman coins, dating back as far as 400 B. C. They are of bronze, silver and gold; the oldest is a huge bronze as, which must have served the ancients, in time of need, as an excellent sling-shot. Unless you are an infatuated coin-collector, you will not spend much time at this case, but will pass on to other curiosities. On the shelf of a bookcase stands a cast of that grim old Puritan soldier, Oliver Cromwell, from the original mask taken after death and presented to Prof...
...that the new clubs lately organized in this vicinity are now in a condition to play a creditable game and, though they may be unable to defeat our team when it has begun regular work in the spring, games arranged with them in future will give our men much needed practice and enable them to enter the intercollegiate games much better prepared than they have ever been before. The practice games will fill a long felt need. Yale and Princeton have been near enough to other teams to arrange matches before the championship games, but Harvard has had to depend...