Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Grandfather Merryman: or a Friend in Need: A. E. Aldrich. O. B. Zell, Springfield, Ohio...
...this singular hostility to an undoubted need and trust on the part of many of our higher seminaries of learning, there are diverse reasons, more or less radical and cogent, more or less obscure or plain. First of all, this temper is a reaction against the spread eagle and unkempt oratory of frontier and semi-civilized congressmen in the old days whose deliverances in the Capitol were often grotesque and amusing - speech run mad and descending into oblivion in a very whirlwind of sound. Diseased oratory should give place to orators duly taught by our colleges, which exist to teach...
...they refuse to live level with their own times. It is quite as possible to teach oratory at Cambridge as it is to teach chemistry or mathematics, and with quite as satisfactory results. There are to-day and here methods and systems and teachers of oratory adequate to the need, and if Harvard objects that these systems are fragmentary or unfinished, she has both money and leisure enough to take them in hand with her own chosen officials and make them satisfactory. What she has done for generations is to ignore them all and put nothing in their place...
...Neither the 'varsity teams nor the 'varsity crew have trained together so far, but individual practice has been the rule for some time. In a word the season's work has been well begun and bids fair to go on with a rush after the recess. There is every need of this, however, with so many vacancies in the nine and crew; and moreover, hard work will be required to make our possession of the Mott Haven cup at all sure...
...congratulate the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality upon the highly successful concert of last evening. Nor let us forget the Banjo Club of which the university existence is now assured. The only criticism which need be made to the programme as a whole is that it was perhaps somewhat too long. The experiment made by the Pierian is very marked and its work was strong throughout. The advent of the Banjo Club as a co-partner in the work of the concert was highly relished by the audience, if judgment may be made from the prolonged applause which greeted...