Word: needful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they worked in a desultory manner all the time. They would probably accomplish more, and would certainly come back to their work at the beginning of the term feeling much more refreshed. The man who has kept up his courses in a conscientious manner during the term, is in need of rest, and every day's application to his studies in vacation detracts just so much from his ability to study when the next term opens. Such a man ought not to do a particle of work...
...homeliest. In the Presentation of Honors of '86, the homely man failed to appear, so a committee was sent after him. He was found in his room but no inducement could bring him out, for, said he, "even if I am homely, I am strong, and you will need a larger crowd than this to take one to the meeting." The exercises had to go on without him, and the next thing was the presentation of the cradle, which was given to a man who came to the college green and countrified and suddenly blossomed out into the toughest...
...Greek the Republic of Plato in Greek, and can take Philosophy 5, in which, among other things, Locke's theories of government are expounded, one can gain some knowledge of this subject, but only to a narrow extent and at a disproportionate outlay of time and labor. A pressing need at Harvard, therefore, is that a special course should be given by either the department of Philosophy or of the Political Sciences, which shall present a critical and historical exposition of the political theories of Plato and Aristotle among the Greeks, of Cicero's "Republic," of the early doctrine...
Last year the faculty recognized the need of co-operation, and announced that there would be, at times, conferences, on matters of common interest between them and the students. One such conference was held, as to whether the experiment was successful or not, we are left in the dark. At any rate we have never had anything else of the kind, unless we except the recent foot ball hearing...
...intimacy can we explain the liberty so often taken in getting off these "grinds." Another reason possibly why such a publication as the Aegis is successful in the smaller colleges, is that the smaller colleges have fewer papers, certainly nothing like the Harvard Lampoon, and therefore supply the need in another way. College wit has to break out somewhere, if not in a Lampoon, in an Aegis...