Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About twenty men are trying for the freshman eleven at Yale. The most of these are very light, and there is great need of heavier...
...sunshine, are precautions, proper enough, to insure good, constant work. And perhaps it is well it is so often urged, since it reminds it that on its present efforts depend its future victories or defeats. But the help gained in this manner is small. What the freshmen need is encouragement and hearty cooperation from their fellow students, not only from freshmen, but from upper classmen; men who have had experience in football, and who are willing to sacrifice a little time and trouble in giving them practical help on the field. It is only in this way that the eleven...
...instruct all seekers after the higher branches of learning. Besides Harvard is abundantly able and willing to assist in a pecuniary way all those whose means are inadequate to an attendance here unless assistance is rendered them; and it has been Harvard's boast that no faithful student need leave college for lack of support and assistance...
Still Dr. Sargent felt that a more precise exposition of measurements was needed; one in which the relation of one part to another was determined. Everyone who has attempted to draw any conclusion from the measurements of the body must have realized the need of some guide to show not only the relative standing of one individual as compared with another, but also the relation of every part of the individual to every other part. The same man may be above the normal in one measurement, and below in another. The extent of the variation is the desirable thing...
...have spent $1,200 a year; and I hardly need to add that much of it has gone unnecessarily, and that were I to pass through these years again I could easily and satisfactorily get on with much less...