Word: needful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...filthy Harpies need she send...
...stood well in his class. But this does not prove conclusively that he has a mind capable of mastering the higher mathematics; nor, again, is it reasonable to suppose that one should elect the classics because he could at school repeat the whole of the Latin Grammar. We need the drill and training of at least one year of required studies to fully make up our minds in regard to our future course. Men in college cannot always decide what they want, as is shown by the frequent change of electives. How much greater, then, would be the dissatisfaction...
...correspondents take what they suppose to be the minority side of the question, and present arguments in opposition to the proposed vacation. We transcribe a few of the leading ones, disclaiming any responsibility for their value. It is argued that the alleged need of rest to the "hard-working undergraduate" is overestimated, and that even if true of some, they are a small minority of the whole number. That the advantages of a vacation would not benefit the large number who spend their Saturdays and Sundays at home, nor those who live at a great distance. To these latter...
CERTAIN we are, that in the person of Dr. Eliot, its President, Harvard has a living illustration of the beauty and power of a fine, neat, simple eloquence, which only need be adapted to each scholar's and each gentleman's native turn of feeling and thought, or his acquisitions, to realize our view of what is to be desired. - College Herald...
...contest in the city of New York will strike the moral sentiment of the country with surprise. Good men everywhere will view the decision with sorrow and mortification. There is but one conclusion possible in the case. The college convention was captured by the vile emissaries of Tammany. We need not name the methods that were probably employed to procure the bringing of innocent college boys within reach of those unmentionable influences in the great metropolis. The ways of Tammany are dark, and its appliances to warp the judgment of men are subtle and powerful. John Morrissey may not have...