Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...drain off and flow under them and are consequently dry at all times when it is not actually snowing or raining. It is not necessary that every walk should be thus improved, but the important ones in constant use at all hours should be made walkable. Especially is the need felt of some change in the long flag walk running the whole length of the yard. In places this walk is in worse condition than it would be without any flagging. In many cases the stones are out of the level or so worn that they hold the water...
...comes from without. Inter-collegiate rivalry is the life of any thorough system of outdoor athletics. That the smaller colleges are taking up with this system and forming leagues for themselves shows not only the force of the example of larger colleges in this matter, but indicates also the need everywhere felt for such a stimulus as inter-collegiate contests afford...
...asked that by some means or other the place be made more inhabitable. It is not conducive to a high standard to give men their examinations in a room whose temperature is about that of a refrigerator. Most men do not get so heated by brain work that they need an atmosphere well down towards zero in which to be comfortable. And yet this seems to be the theory on which Massachusetts is heated-or rather left unheated. It does not seem to be an extravagant demand to ask that this hall be kept warmed hereafter whenever men are compelled...
...members of the academic and scientific departments get quite a regular amount of systematic out-door exercise from, or in consequence of, the present system of college athletics. It is no argument against the system that all the members of the university do not take advantage of it. The need of exercise is met, and opportunities for regular and systematic exercise are given, with inducements to take it, which do act upon at least half of the membership of the two departments most in need...
Culture then is the need of America, and classical culture is the only true basis of culture. Even so ardent an opponent of Greek as Professor Josiah P. Cooke, said no earlier than 1875, in his address opening the summer school of chemistry, that if he were compelled to choose, he should take classical culture in preference to what he called "science culture...