Word: needful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...considerable number of students has felt the need of at least a half-course in the topics of the day. There can be little doubt that, were such a course started and conducted on an intelligent basis, it would be largely attended. Many men enter college and pass from day to day with very meagre ideas of that which is doing in the world about them. Congressional reforms have little interest for them, and present European politics are too complicated and need too patient study to be carefully followed. This is simply the result of one's finding himself...
...with exceptional voices, but rather those who sing with attention to the requirements of the music and with care in regard to the pitch; men who are willing to work and to submit to the necessary discipline. Besides the large number of tenors and bases, the club will need a yodler and a whistler. The number of men who attended the trial of candidates last October was smaller than usual; it would be very unfortunate if with greater needs than usual the Club should find itself hampered next fall by a limited range of choice occasioned by lack of interest...
...work for the examinations. Why the library should be shut on a day when many men would certainly desire to use the books is a little hard to see. To view the matter most charitably, the authorities showed a blameworthy thoughtlessness in depriving men of the aid they need, particularly in these days just before the examinations...
...spend, and this too when reserved seats were thought to be worth only twenty-five cents. With this fact in view it is rather hard to understand the action of the present manager. Games to-day are no better than they were last year or the year before, and need of money is certainly the only excuse that would justify the management in raising the price of seats. Need of money, however, is not likely to be the excuse offered. The action of the manager is altogether arbitrary and unjust and ought to be revoked...
...Glee Club has not given a concert for some time, but will go to Morristown, N. J., next Friday evening. The clubs feels very much the need of first tenors, and if these are not forthcoming next fall the Glee Club for 1889 will be placed a serious disadvantage...