Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent number of the Boston Journal contains a letter on the scarcity of students' rooms at Harvard and the need of new dormitories. At present but 543 students out of the 928 in the college catalogue are accommodated in the college dormitories. As a result the lodging-house keepers who accommodate the rest of the students have been from time to time raising their rates until their demands have become so extortionate as to make the price of living at Harvard so high as to turn away men to other colleges. The writer in the Journal thinks some means should...
...nine were near-sighted, the fielders used crutches, and the rest had never seen a first base, we should still say : "Our victorious athletes left last night to wipe up Harvard, on her own grounds, this afternoon. There will be need of a crowd to spur them on, the Yale nine will not be allowed more than six runs apiece, and we long for a foeman worthy our steel." etc. There's nothing like "hoping for the best" and scattering it all around for the benefit of the disheartened. - [Yale Courant...
...those whose intellects are below - or above - mastering such elementary propositions as these. The skill of the player may be appreciated by people who have not a conception what is the score; and the neatness with which a ball is "placed," or the rapidity with which it is "volleyed," need not be missed because the spectator is utterly at sea as to which side of the net is getting the best of it. - [London Standard...
...Boston. The Glee Club also have some new college songs, which they intend to sing for the first time at this concert. Besides these, several solos, vocal and instrumental, help to make up a specially fine programme. As the association of the Glee Club and Pierian is in need of money, college men will not only pass an enjoyable evening by attending the concert, but will, at the same time, aid materially our two musical societies. As an experiment, tickets for this concert have been reduced to $1.00 and 50 cents. So pecuniary considerations should keep none from attending...
There will be a one-hour examination in Spanish I. on Wednesday, May 16th, in Sever 35, instead of the stated recitation of that day. The subject of the examination will be the Grammar (Verbs) and no text or blank books need be brought...