Word: needed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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faculty but the medical faculty may grant free or reduced tuition to the extent of ten per cent. of the number of students, on the ground of character, ability and need combined...
...Saturday's issue you called attention to the need of a board walk across Holmes Field to the Carey Building. Please let me add that there is great need of one on Oxford street, on the way to the museum. Frequently the side-walk is so muddy and sloppy that the men in numbers leave it and take to the less muddy, but equally disagreeable, walking in the middle of the street. So many have to take this walk to attend lectures and to meet laboratory engagements that it seems almost as needful to have a dry walk there...
With regard to the retiring allowance, when I first thought of resigning I was only dimly aware of the existence of such a thing, and I certainly had no idea or expectation that I should in any way benefit from it myself. I need not say that the unexpected and generous provision made for me is very welcome, and relieves me from all pecuniary cares for the rest of my life. I only wish I could have foreseen it long ago in the day of small things. I am, however, sincerely glad that my colleagues have this to look forward...
...There is need of a board walk across Holmes Field. The number of men who must each day cross the field in order to practice in the Carey Building is large, and there is no good reason why proper accommodations should not be provided. The fact that only a slight amount of artificial flooding would make the field a pond is sufficient indication of its condition. The cost of the walk would be small and the convenience given would certainly be large...
...intended for general students as well as for specialists, but of course a man who studies them for general knowledge would not take the advanced and detailed courses any more than a man studying physics for a broad education would take all the courses that an electrical engineer might need...