Word: needful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...view of the fact that a number of our undergraduates are strongly in favor of introducing at Harvard a system of scholarships to be awarded without regard to the pecuniary need of the students, it is important to know President Eliot's opinion on this matter...
This, however, need not prevent a return to class races if the crews will be satisfied to use the club boats this spring, and defer the purchase of University shells till next year. A class race, even in our club boats, would be far more interesting than club races can ever be, and would insure the entrance of crews better trained than they have been for the two years past, and class feeling would act as a stimulus to greater exertion...
...Freshman Nine, too, need to train themselves thoroughly before they meet Yale, for the Yale Freshmen are putting all their energy into base-ball, and will probably turn out a strong team in the spring. The Nine now are doing good work in the Gymnasium, and promise well. They are, however, much in need of a catcher, as the person who has been training for that position is ill, and probably will hardly be able to play with them...
WITH the first number of this volume the editors of the Crimson beg to announce to their readers the introduction of a column devoted exclusively to amateur sports. The need of some short abstract of sporting news has long been felt by many men who have not the time to wade weekly through several papers like the Spirit of the Times, who yet desire to keep up with the athletic world at home and abroad. We hope our column may supply this want, and that its excellence may prove our excuse for inserting it. The information contained in it will...
...OEstrus, from California, seems to have rather a blunt sting; it is filled with those primitive and exceedingly personal "grinds," which are found only in very youthful and very Western papers, and in a contemporary from Connecticut, which we need not mention more explicitly. We learn from the OEstrus that California colleges are like our own, in some respects at least. There, as here, the editors have to write the papers; there, as here, athletics are neglected, and so on through the list of grievances. For purity of style and refinement of taste, we commend this item...