Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...yellow house which has often attracted attention, contrasting as it does so strongly with the large buildings which occupy the southern portion of the field. This little building is the college hospital, and, although small, it is yet perfect in all its arrangements. In 1874 the authorities felt the need of an institution of this sort in connection with the college, for twice in recent years the breaking out of a contagious disease had found the college unprepared for such an emergency. In the first of these cases the president had promptly thrown open his house to the sick student...
...form a disinterested opinion on the abstract question of co-education, it need hardly be said, is a very difficult matter. Indeed it can almost be said that such an opinion is impossible. Co-education is as much a question of distinct practical conditions and local influences as it is one of theoretical utility. Testimony that can be gathered from all quarters is so conflicting in character that it is next to impossible to secure any concensus of opinions which might decide...
...same time at the very beginning of the season, when of course practice together tells for a great deal. Still, there is luckily time enough for most of the men to get back and get into trim again before the college games begin; and there is consequently no need for the college to give up hopes of putting a good representative nine into the field for those contests. We are especially lucky in having a good second nine from which to draw substitutes for any places which may be made vacant. Just what could be done in the present condition...
...Such a course of advanced study as that proposed at Princeton," says President Porter, "is the legitimate way for colleges to pass into universities, and there is need now of a university, liberal and comprehensive, to which the graduates of Harvard and Princeton and Yale may go for post-graduate instruction. The place for the founding of such a university is in a large city; there it is where best can be gathered great minds. It is at London today that many of the greatest lectures are delivered, and not at the English universities." And, with this in view, President...
...many directions, especially in scientific work, in chemistry and geology and in the school of arts, the instruction is limited. The true friends of the college fear, however, that it does not possess sufficient elasticity and progressive vitality to expand into a great university, responsive to every need of the age, and especially they fear the conservatism of its trustees who do not seem to sympathize with the great intellectual movements of the present century...