Word: needful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...needs of the service require your entire attention, you will, of course, disregard, for the present, all your obligations to Harvard, except the supreme obligation of representing her worthily in this crisis." This statement issued by President Lowell to Harvard students, now in the service of the Commonwealth, typifies ideals for which Harvard University stands,-devotion to the government, upholding its power abroad and at home. President Lowell is not bound by a false sense of values. If need be registration and the listing of studies can be delayed; duty to the state comes first...
...Another important need is $1,000,000 to furnish an income of $50,000, for the Dental School. This money would be devoted to the payment of teachers in the school, 80 per cent. of whom are now unpaid, giving their services for nothing...
...amount which we seek is large. It is absolutely necessary in the form of unrestricted funds. The first important need is a 50 per cent. increase in the salaries of the teaching staff, which has been struggling along with truly admirable self-denial on the scale established 14 years ago. For this we must raise no less than $12,000,000, to yield an income of $600,000. It is fair to say that 90 per cent. of the teachers of the University can not live without personal sacrifice on the salaries paid them as teachers...
...emphasized the need of the development of industrial chemistry. Scientists also say that the greatest opportunity for scientific developments within the next 25 years lies in chemistry. It is important to build up the chemical department of the university; for the purpose of employing new professors and instructors; an endowment of $1,000,000 furnishing $50,000, is necessary...
There is always a great economic need for fresh capital, and just now the work of supplying enterprise with needed money, by reason of post-war conditions, takes on new importance. We are the largest house of our kind in America, handling only the cleanest, high-grade financial investments. The sales capacity of the house runs into millions annually. It has twenty-two branch offices and plans to expand to a total of seventy-five branches. We have forty thousand clients. Our aim is to increase this to one hundred thousand within a year. The last enterprise handled...