Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have struck at the real cause both of Harvard's indifference and her want of success. Athletics are free from artificial and injurious restraint, and a vigorous hope of success is taking the place of a growing despair that Harvard would ever again win victory. There is no need to urge earnestness on the part of those trying for the nine or crew, for the spirit of it is in the very air. We would, however, encourage the timid who have not full confidence in their own abilities not to hesitate to make a trial at least of their powers...
...been doing regular work, but now that the Christmas recess is past, all of them will settle down to the winter training. The number of candidates which have presented themselves for the junior and senior crews speaks well for the work which those classes intend to do. The sophomores need all the new material which it is possible for them to obtain. The men who commenced with the freshman crew are still hard at work, but great dissatisfaction is felt with the eleven. As yet only a small number of them have presented themselves as candidates for the crew...
...Harvard and Yale) have now joined the Commission on Admission Examinations. The commission, which will comprise one faculty member from each college, has still another object in view-the establishment of a system by which the requirements for admission will be more uniform than they are at present. The need of which has been felt by many young men who have been compelled to go to preparatory schools which made a specialty of fitting for some college other than the one they wished to enter. Thus a good deal of the regular school work was unnecessary...
...club provides us with a chance to hear a man distinguished in any branch of learning, it is only fair and right that the students should show an appreciation of the favor by their presence in numbers large enough to fill the hall, and then there would be no need to throw open the doors to outsiders in order to get an audience. As the seats are reserved and tickets can be had for the asking, no one can stay away in the excuse that it is necessary to go early to get a seat, or that they...
...objection has been raised that there are no competent men of this stamp to be found. But there are such men, and well known ones at that. I have two in mind at present-Messrs. Edward Plummer and George Goldie, both of whom are far too well known to need any words of praise from me. One of these men I know to be perfectly competent. The other, if not so, only lacks a familiarity with the latest rules, which could be easily acquired. These men are men of sufficient age and experience not to be biased by petty influences...