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Word: needful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their rooms. Exactly such cases are comparatively rare, I know, because generally there will be some one to make friends with them. But why should we allow a state of things to exist at all, which infuses bitterness into the lives of many of our fellow-students? It need take no great sacrifice on our part to be genial and kind to worthy fellow-students, even if they are poor and of a rough exterior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 12/13/1887 | See Source »

...control and the sort of people to whom he is to minister. In general terms, I should say that in fitting one's self for work in a miscellaneous library the best thing to be proficient in is literary history and general bibliography. As to languages, one need hardly hope to do his duty without a working knowledge of French and German; and Latin is of great help in dealing with various other languages. There is no language without new help accompanying its acquisition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Requirements and Opportunities of the Librarian's Profession. | 12/12/1887 | See Source »

...given this winter are intended to bring out new men and raise the standard of the men we already have in three events which it is very important for us to win at New York next spring. Those events are chosen partly because in them we need better work, and partly because they admit of practice in the gymnasium as well as on the field. They will accomplish the purpose for which they are held, only if men go in with a will and train for them faithfully. Every athletic man in college ought to feel that it would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/9/1887 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I was glad to notice in your issue of Saturday, that you speak of the need of some event in the gymnasium which would "take" on Saturday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 12/8/1887 | See Source »

...pressure upon her resources is simply tremendous. Men less kind and courteous would be ceaselessly wrangling and bitterly jealous, if called to struggle a these do for their share of the college income; while each department, each scientific school, the gymnasium, the library, get but part of what they need, and each is just able to pull through the year and not run in debt. This only means that the life of the school is grandly vigorous. Its various departments beset the sorely tried president and treasurer with the appetites of growing boys. But that appetite shows that the family...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notes from Harvard College. | 12/7/1887 | See Source »

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