Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...April Century appeared an editorial discussing the need of a great metropolitan university which should be to the city of New York what Harvard is to Boston, Yale to New Haven, and Johns Hopkins to Baltimore. Although there are many colleges in New York, more or less fully equipped, not one of these can lay claim to the title of a great university. Feeling this need, the friends of higher education are anxious, if possible, to lay the foundations of a future university, of which New York may well be proud...
...question signs himself "A Well-wisher," we cannot help feeling that his manner of showing his good will is in somewhat questionable taste. It is a well known fact that the society intend in time to enlarge the possibilities of the school as quickly as the money that is needed is forthcoming. The appointment of a permanent sub-director, who shall be under the direction of the director but who shall always remain at the school, has been resolved upon by the society ever since its organization. But the present unsettled condition of its finances does not allow any more...
...blanks have been issued and the collection of the class fund had been begun long before the mid-years, in some cases even before Christmas. '83's fund does not promise to be a large one, and therefore it seems to me there is, and for months has been, need of earnest and continued effort on the part of the secretary. To leave the entire work,- the collection of the funds and the writing of the class lives-until the last term of the year does not seem to be a course that will bring about the best results...
...Jones is, no doubt, an able and conscientious instructor, and does for the men under him all that his limited time allows. But when one man is called upon to teach elocution - a subject in which there is especial need of individual attention and criticism - to the whole college, satisfactory results can hardly be looked for. Class instruction may be all very well for beginners, in serving to give them an idea of fundamental rules and starting them in the right direction. But when men have made any progress at all, what they need is individual instruction and a chance...
...there any need of starting the bar so low in the two-hand vault? It increases the length of the event unnecessarily, and would seem to decrease the chances of making good records by tiring out the contestants too soon...