Word: needful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...float, for the general convenience of the H. U. B. C., and under the careful and experienced attention of the vice-president, it will hereafter be regularly used as a life-boat. This assurance of means of rescue all ready in case of accident will satisfy an imperative need of beginners in the noble art of sculling, and will give them courage for renewed exertions...
...crew at certain hours of the day, while at all other times the boats should be at the disposal of any of the members. These divisions should be merely for the purpose of dividing the rowing men into crews, and consequently there would be no need of any officers other than the captain. The general management of the club-should be in the hands of an executive committee as at present. No more work would devolve upon the assistant treasurer than now; for in making his canvass for money he would simply invite fellows to join the boat-club instead...
That is, we should have eleven hundred dollars to spend on repairs and new boats, and besides should have the eight-oar cast off by the University crew. The expenses of the crew for this year will not exceed the amount named, and do not need to any year. For four hundred dollars a janitor could be hired to give all his time and care to the premises, and so keep them in much better order than at present...
...winter's Gymnasium practice is shown by the excellent form in which the Nine shows itself thus early in the season. The new mask has proved a complete success, since it entirely protects the face and head, and adds greatly to the confidence of the catcher, who need not feel that he is every moment in danger of a life-long injury. To the ingenious inventor of this mask we are largely indebted for the excellent playing of our new catcher, who promises to excel the fine playing of those who have previously held this position. As a whole...
...propound the following problem (no one but Harvard need send in a solution). If in nine years Cornell has reached her present height among American institutions of learning, what, at the present rate of advancement, will be her rank when she is - say, two hundred and fifty years old?" - Cornell Review...