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Word: needful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should be hostile to these clubs, but it is evident that the contacts which a club supplies are far too limited for a widening effect upon the members, and it is equally evident that the majority of men who do not belong to any club are not less in need of a more coordinating social organization than Harvard College offers them today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coolidge Explains House Plan to Graduates in Speech In St. Louis---Emphasizes Social Benefits to be Derived | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

...included in the two thousand or more recently discovered by Professor Hart and Mr. Henry Woodhouse, a collector in Washington, D. C. It appears that Mrs. Mary Ball Washington, mother of the president, applied to the legislature a short while after the Revolution, and claimed that she was in need of a pension and certainly merited it, as the mother of the patriot. Her son, then president, was greatly embarrassed we have a letter which he wrote to his sister, vehemently protesting that their mother was well able to take care of herself on her substantial income. Among the letters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Facts Brought to Light in Recent Discoveries in Old Washington Letters | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

...went on to say that he thought the situation created by the publication of the issue was one which the House Plan would remedy. "The action of the Lampoon editors shows that the men are in need of more mature minds in their midst, to prevent them from repeating things of that nature. The trustees who threatened to resign are in the right, for as overseers they can force the issue and make the Lampoon retract...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clarence Cook Little Supports Action of Lampoon Trustees in Deploring Recent Issue--Will Continue Cancer Research | 2/19/1929 | See Source »

This is a comforting thought, but it might be more comforting if it had not been thought before and so often that it seems really to need no more crusaders to champion its truth. There has come from the presses lately a steady stream of literature, all of which maintains, in effect, that the colleges are all right, and do not deserve the criticism leveled at them by a number of people which is certainly less than the number now refuting the criticism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colleges Again | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...stated that the construction of the new steel stands at the open end of the Stadium would probably necessitate the removal of the cage, but that it would under no circumstances be destroyed. He said that Harvard was in greater need of facilities for indoor sports than outdoor playing fields and that, because of this, the cage would be dismanteled and removed to another part of Soldiers Field. The cage was built in 1897 and is still in constant use in spite of the construction of the new Briggs cage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD BASEBALL CAGE WILL BE MOVED, SAYS BINGHAM | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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