Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...arise. It would of course be useless to ask for any better appliances for extinguishing fire or for saving life, and we must therefore turn our attention now to the apparatus which is at hand, and consider how it might be put into effective action in case of sudden need...
...well, more or less certainties this year, and those who did well last year can be relied on to train faithfully this year again. Yet confidence in winning certain events should not lead us to think we have any certainty of getting the cup and that there is no need of training new men. There are several events, which we have sometimes won and sometimes lost during past years, some of which we must win next May in order to win the cup. Unfortunately our best athletes in these particular events have graduated, so that for the mile...
...Ritter, of Vassar College, has recently published two volumes entitled "Music in England" and "Music in America." They are of great interest and fill a need that has long been felt...
...subject of interest to many, students and instructors alike, is the need of a much larger number of duplicate copies of certain reference books in the library. Several new methods of study have been introduced during the past few years, and among them is the use of reference books for parallel reading. Especially has this become the practice in many of the history courses, which are among the largest and most popular in the elective schedule. One of two alternatives for carrying out this reading must be taken by a candidate in such courses. Either he must buy or borrow...
...life. He was a man who admitted very few persons to his confidence. He has always lived in Cambridge in a college dormitory. He was genial, however, and visited frequently in the families of his friends. Living as he did, his income was little used for his own needs, but he was not at all a miser. His gifts in charity were large, and he found many ways to extend a helping hand to his fellowmen. One noticeable act of generosity was his giving to his native village in Greece a system of public water-works, the need of which...