Word: needful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Such an organization would probably be impracticable; and even if it were formed, its advantage would be questionable. What we want and need is, not the ability to criticise the characters and actions of the politicians of the moment, which can be easily obtained by paying a decent amount of attention to the columns of a daily paper; it is a familiarity with the fundamental principles of political economy, and, above all, with the Constitution of the United States. Every citizen cannot be expected to be a profound statesman, but every citizen can be, and is expected to be, able...
...tablet might be designed of some suitable material, large enough for a man's name and the date of his class and death, perhaps, to be fastened on the wall, with a shelf below for the standard biography. The whole affair, books and all, need not cost more than ten dollars, and, as it should be one of the highest honors the University has to bestow on her sons, it would not be necessary often enough to make any considerable expense; even if it did, the occupant of the room would be willing to pay part of the expense...
...article on University Lectures in a recent number of the Magenta expressed a need that is widely felt. The Physiology and Hygiene of the Human Body is one subject on which a course of Lectures, illustrated by specimens, would be appreciated and gladly attended by many students. Surely there are several instructors here who are competent to enlighten our mental darkness in this regard, and relieve us from our painful, not to say shameful, ignorance. Feeling the benefit of the Shaksperian and Homeric readings, and of the lectures on French literature; like Oliver Twist, we cry for "more." We hope...
...mere form, or started off-hand by some class which has left this as its valueless legacy; the custom is, rather, of long growth, and confirmed at every step of its development by ample testimonies to its necessity. So long ago as 1800, at least, a need was felt of some record of the lives of fellow-classmen about to graduate, and a member of that class purchased a book, in which he wrote out brief accounts of his fellows. This became more or less a habit, and the Class-Book of 1806 has now been returned to the Library...
...swells with as much self-satisfaction as the fabulous frog is nearer to him than he ever imagined. Many approach him more or less nearly at one point or another, but a scrub is a perfect scrub only when he is physically, mentally, and morally in need of a good scrubbing...