Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...teaching to numskulls the elements of a noble science. A very eminent physician once said to a wealthy young man who was undecided whether to start a chemical factory or to follow up chemistry in a purely theoretical way, - "For Heaven's sake devote yourself to pure science; we need men like you, whose brains need not be split up in seeking for their daily bread...
...true, of a pure, new thought, which will not be crowded out, and will in its utterance prove its own intrinsic worth. This, then, we may fairly accept as the basis of Harvard poetry. But what are the poets? Of course we have execrable rhymesters, writers who need not hope for immortality, but the grave. Although a Shelley, a Coleridge, or a Wordsworth may in his college days have penned despicable lines, we have no right to argue that one who here pens more despicable verse will be a greater than Wordsworth. A veil, never to be raised, hides...
...ticket purchased should be placed at a higher price, there would be far less occasion to squander the tickets issued, and the character of those admitted to our evening festivities would be distinctly of a less questionable type. So simple a remedy ought not to be neglected, when the need of it is so great. If the class day committee of the present year make the first step in reform, the future will be already assured. We sincerely hope that for the good name of our university, if not for the pleasure of our friends, this much-needed change will...
After admission, the candidates for the simple degree of A. B. spends on the average, twelve hours a week in recitations, while only three years are necessary to complete the course, and not even all of this time need be passed in residence at the university. Their recesses are also longer, so that the three terms contain only about two hundred and twenty-seven days. Moreover, at a certain period in their course, arts students may take professional studies, and by a certain selection of subjects, may have their choice of either a degree in arts...
...pardoned, if, under the circumstances, we decline their society. Although a member of the faculty may enter a student's room at pleasure, a policeman cannot enter without a search warrant sworn out for that particular room. Therefore, unless this document is presented in regular form, no man need feel obliged to admit anyone, save the college authorities. On the other hand, every man is at liberty to protect his room from intrusion in any way that may seem best. In truth, either a policeman's billy, hat, or belt make a much better wall decoration than the handsomest street...