Word: needful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only special training for citizenship that our colleges can give must be found in these departments of history and economics, and the need of this training becomes more and more evident as our national problems become more intricate and more clearly problems to be solved by students and not by enthusiasts. The value of such training for women becomes more and more evident as their opinion and judgment are now being so rapidly brought to bear upon public questions...
...duty of cataloguing the new books, and of adding a host of old ones to the authors' lists, is indeed an arduous one, and Mr. Winsor has accomplished a task which will doubtless bring him well-deserved thanks. But still the library, perfect as it now is sorely in need of one thing which will render it of more importance than ever electric lights. These we hope to see put in shortly, and we have good ground for believing that, in this respect, our wishes will be gratified...
Princeton has long felt the need of a laboratory for instruction in vertebrate anatomy and embryology, as the students taking the special courses in vertebrate morphology, embryology and histology have been greatly hampered by the very meagre accommodations for laboratory work. Three members of the class of '77 have during the last seven years been appointed professors in different branches of biology, and the class naturally took a great deal of interest in the welfare of this department. The members therefore decided to build a laboratory and give it to their alma mater...
...however, they have $280, half of which they volunteer to give to the crew, it is contemptibly mean for any one to question their right to what they ask. The excuse crew men offer for the position they have taken is that every cent that can be obtained is needed by the crew. It is true enough that the crew will need a great deal of money, but it does not signify that on this account it should invade the obvious rights of the football team, and trample on common decency for the sake of getting the money. There...
...short time ago, at the close of his course of lectures, Professor Cooke explained very clearly to the freshman class the present great need of a lecture room sufficient to accommodate the increased number of students in his course. This need is yearly increasing and should be satisfied at once. Here, however, as in the other case, the college is delayed by lack of available funds, and so we are forced to wait for a necessary improvement...