Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...write your theses after you get back. You'll do it better and quicker then, and finally, as the professor in a philosophy course, in which the CRIMSON was, last year, advised, "go home and court the ladies as much as possible or you will forget how. You need their refining influence...
...league, she did not win the championship which ought to have been hers. We shall always maintain that Harvard had the best nine in the league of 1886, and that nothing but a series of accidents lost her the championship; in support of this view the figures now published need only be referred to, and the general playing of the nine last year need only be recalled; but spite of that, we lost the championship. These figures as a remainder of what has been should stimulate the nine to dispense with accidents during the coming year, and lead both...
...regard of its academic rivals. An Englishman might meditate on Mr. Lowell's eloquent tribute to the historic glories of Oxford and Cambridge, and think that Harvard was not without compensation for their absece. In England the alumni of the old Universities feel that they are immemorial institutions which need little help from them. The alumni of Harvard felt that the college belonged to themselves, had been enriched by the munificence of many who were present and looked to them all for the means of increasing her future usefulness...
...experimental, the English Department works on; and feels year by year more gratitude to the critic at once severe and kind who has already made something out of nothing, and who with good health and fair play will make in time a department of which not even "John Donne" need be ashamed...
...Welsh spoke earnestly of the great need of the Indians for education; for clear titles to land and the privileges of holding land in severalty; above all, for law. The civil service rules should be applied to the choice of land agents and of all Indian officials. The spoils system is the cause of much of the present distress among the Indians, and should be abolished. The speaker closed with an earnest appeal to his hearers to give their personal attention and aid to these oppressed peoples...