Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fact, too, that our victory was gained over such strong antagonists adds greater satisfaction to our success. Too much cannot be said in praise of the eight oarsmen who so stubbornly fought for a victory for Columbia. They have shown by their splendid work of yesterday that Columbia need have no cause for discouragement, for a crew that can make such a record may be confidently expected to show even better results in the future...
...scholarship, the archeological knowledge and the artistic skill which presided over that performance invest the record of it with a permanent value for every student of the play." The thorough scholarship and the peculiar interest of this volume to Harvard men should make it a popular one here. The need of a library edition of the Greek tragedians has long been felt, and as we close the volume we can but hope that it is but the first of a series of similar volumes on all the plays of Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides...
...books, and it is only when the more serious work is laid aside that there can be found a proper leisure for such a purpose. Although Emerson advised no one to read a book that was not one year old, we would not, if we looked about us, have need of his advice, for there are so many good books that have been already many years before the public which ought to claim our attention, that we need have no cause to fall back upon the spasmodic appearance of a "latest" to supply us with reading...
...operative Society has made additional arrangements for the purchase of foreign text books and other books during the summer season when the students will be away from Cambridge. As by the aid of the many descriptive pamphlets the students are made acquainted with the books which they will probably need in their courses, it would be for the benefit of all parties that the books should be ordered at once so as to be ready for delivery when college opens in the fall. Permission will be given to order books to persons not now members, upon condition that they become...
...yesterday to bring victory out of what seemed an almost sure defeat-but why wait so long. The game cannot always be won in the last half as it was yesterday. Let the cheering be strong and hearty from the start, and with the nine that we have we need not expect again to see them so far behind...