Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hope that in the future there will be no need of mentioning this subject, but that the men who attend the course will behave as gentlemen, or, what should be synonymous, Harvard students...
...twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew. He spoke of the simplicity with which the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem is here described, and said that in that very simple city there are many lessons for us. He dwelt particularly upon the second verse of the chapter. It illustrated the need of the greatest things of this world for the least, of the highest for the lowest. The most insignificant things become essential when there is a demand for them. So in life, there is a place for everyone; no one should become discouraged because he does not see the value...
...make this suggestion that among these questions of reform I might point out one at least in which the student need not be treated as the "forgotten...
...been said that the opportunities which the scientific department of the University offers for the study of electricity are inadequate to the need. There have been few students in the scientific school, however, who have come here with the purpose of obtaining a complete knowledge of this subject together with the intricacies of its practical workings, and, therefore, it is hardly fair to say that the University has been remiss in not providing the most elaborate appliances for the use of an extremely limited number...
...they can hardly fail to accomplish their objects-partially at any rate. Their purposes are in a way co-operative,- to help each other in the study of the subject in which they all have a common interest. They hope also to bring before the University the need of better appliances in the electrical department, by the aid of which a man may gain as complete an education in electricity as in any other department of the University...