Word: needful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conduct of the Harvard freshmen in regard to admitting Yale to the Harvard-Columbia freshman race, has been decidedly open to censure. There is no need of again commenting upon their original action in considering Yale's challenge. They have already been sufficiently blamed for that in Yale, Harvard and Columbia publications. Some time since, however, it was announced that they would hold another meeting to reconsider this action, but although nearly two weeks have elapsed since then, nothing further has been done. This delay on their part in coming to a final decision deserves great censure, especially...
...dense ignorance. What is asked for the negro is not mere rights, he has all the rights of American citizens, but more light. The speaker said that in his experience he learned as much as he taught; he found his people only too eager to learn. The sorest need of this people is for teachers, and the Hampden school is the place for such teachers to be prepared, and the school calls for the support of all Americans...
Arthur Boykin, a graduate, then spoke on "Africa in America." He emphasized what a former speaker had said of the sore need of competent teachers in the South, of the eagerness with which the negroes seize all opportunities offered them. The speaker gave a short sketch of his life, better to show the need of his people. Mr. Boykin was followed by Marguerite La Fleshe, who spoke of the difference of the condition of her people, the Omahas, to-day, and fifteen years ago when she lived among them. Then they lived as tribes; but in the interval they have...
...hearing an amateur concert that showed no traces of those dreadful evils which are so apt to be brought into prominence in such performances. The work of pushing the fund in aid of the School at Athens has been begun with energy. So worthy an object will not need to go begging...
...present need is for intelligent organizers and leaders rather than for skilful performers - for those who can arouse enthusiasm for health and development rather than for feats and display...