Word: needful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Thus the result of the entire system is that those men who bid fair to be our more prominent writers and thinkers are induced to exercise themselves more in writing and thinking than less promising students, who will seldom need to do more than write business letters. Of course, there are many men who do not use any of these means of education, for even a theme may be bought for a few dollars; still it is through no fault of our system that men remain awkward in expressing themselves. That many of our best writers are willing to make...
...Blakey's profit is too high, which seems impossible at the present rate, since the boats will need to be renewed every three or four years, the club officers should investigate the matter, and ask him to reduce his charges, instead of allowing men to think that he "exacts" or "extorts" too much. Mr. Blakey has assured us that he is willing to act fairly toward the students and reduce the assessment as soon as it is possible; we therefore hope that, if the club officers have reason to think that $15 a year is too much, they will publish...
...language of words and acts that characterizes and separates them from the mass. It is the result of uniformity of occupation and desires, and is developed by internal laws, proceeding not from the composition of the editorial staff of the Nation, but from the exigencies of college life. I need not stop to point out the various causes that tend to produce the flippant tone among students which has struck our author. It is but the cant of our profession, and is only skin-deep. The curious might go on to analyze it into the effect of sudden accession...
However, I was filled with sorrow to learn that the character of the community and the traditions of the college prevented them from joining the undignified crowd which at present participates in the intercollegiate regattas; for it appears to me that the races need some proud and dignified college like the University of Vermont to give them tone and put them on a respectable basis: moreover, the desire of Union and Hamilton is great, and their cry is loud for some one to enter the lists whom they can stand a chance of beating...
...copy of Vick's Floral Guide might be presented. Also the land in the rear of the Scientific School, if proper attention were paid to it, might be induced to become the abode of the sweet-smelling onion, the cabbage, and the beet, - the last-named, however, will not need to be cultivated, for deceased members of its family already abound in Cambridge, - instead of being used for foot-ball matches, and allowed to run to waste...