Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...friend of Lake Forest (Ill.) University says that institution is trying to become the Yale or Harvard of the West, and is now "in the condition of a great ship with all her sails spread and the sailors at their posts, but remaining still for need of wind." This leads the wicked Graphic to comment: "This is the first case recorded in which a fresh-water college has remained still for lack of wind...
...possibly there are or soon will be better uses to which to apply the liberal endowments of her benefactors than even the finest and most satisfactory buildings. As soon as the new law school, the medical school and the physical laboratory shall have been completed, will Harvard have a need for further buildings by any means so pressing as for an increase in the number of and better endowments for her teaching force? When the college has an annual deficit of $20,000 or $30,000, and in consequence thereof is compelled to seriously cramp and injure her active instruction...
...elective in English 2 were given three hours and a half for their examination last Saturday. They had need of the time...
President Bodine addressed the congregation of Christ Church and of St. Paul's Episcopal Church a day or two ago, on the pressing need of financial support for Kenyon College. He demonstrated by facts and figures that no college of any celebrity was self-sustaining. The list included Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth and many others that he named. He said that all of the institutions were practically under the control of some religious denomination-Harvard under the Unitarians, Yale the Congregationalists, Princeton under the Presbyterians, and so on to the end of the list. Colleges supported by state instead...
...Union Theological Seminary of New York, besides the gift of $200,000 from Ex-Gov. Morgan, has lately received donations amounting to about $180,000, and also has $80,000 promised for the endowment of a professorship. And yet its officers claim that it is in need of $175.000 more...