Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...character could be worthy of the support of the entire university and its friends. Still, the failure of the Register will be likely to prevent any future schemes of such a sort for a long time to come. Nevertheless, the Register was called into being to supply an actual need of the college at the time; its fault was, that it more than supplied that want. Now that that paper has died, the same want again exists, after having been once partially satisfied. That want is not now, we believe, by any means adequately supplied by the University Bulletin...
...notwithstanding this, it is an error to think that these provincial colleges are useless, yes, pernicious affairs, doing more evil than good. It is said that there ought to be two or three good universities in the country, and that as such places already exist, there is no need for the many institutions that furnish advanced instruction. England, and all foreign countries in fact, are cited as examples of the truth of this, and as showing the good result of having few colleges. But those who talk in this way fail to take into consideration the vast difference...
...Oscar Wilde states that Niagara Falls are artistically correct, so they will not have to be reconstructed, and you need not be afraid of showing bad taste if you admire them. - [Post...
...class, are subjected to and suffer more extortion than any other part of the community, and secondly, that it is only through their own initiative that relief and reform can be secured. Cooperative schemes anywhere are doubtful undertakings, doubly so in college matters; and therefore, although the need of action on our part is universally admitted, it behooves us to look carefully in the first place to our beginnings; then not to attempt too much at once; and above all, to enlist the interest and active cooperation of the greatest number possible before taking any decisive step. Better...
...been either that some member of the faculty deliver lectures to undergraduates upon the scheme and scope of the various courses, or that a descriptive circular be distributed to students, explaining the same things and giving tentative or provisional groupings of courses advised for certain supposed cases. The need for any of these plans in any case is not very serious, but still there are undoubtedly blunders made by many, if not by most of the men, in selecting their courses, which are afterwards regretted, and would have probably been prevented had they had access to good information and advice...