Word: needful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who have had anything to do with the gathering of Harvard's news have long felt that the University stood in need of a competent director of publicity. The one "big" news story of the Harvard week, the Corporation's decision on the Stadium, has convinced even less interested parties that the University is badly mismanaging her relations with the press and thereby with her graduates and the public...
...best varsities ever produced, regarding both field tonnage and percentage of sucrose in the juice. The average yield of cane per caballeria is at least 15 percent greater than that of Cristalina, growing under similar agronomic conditions, and, as it is a more persistent grower, the fields do not need replanting so frequently. The cane stalks are solid and of greater weight than Cristalina. A sample of 22 carloads of this cane averaged 239 arrobas per car heavier than an equal number of Cristalina. (Cristalina usually weighs from 1,000 to 1,100 arrobas per carload...
...depart with a clean slate, there is no little gloom among the shops sartorial, tonsorial, and cosmetic that flaunt their signs around the Common. The great public continues its patronage, but, just as Harvard has said it will not employ their services, so Boston's police report that they need them...
...York, accustomed as they are to the manipulations of Tammany, might object to such open toleration of dishonesty as an acquittal would indicate. On the other hand, the more cynical can see good advice to future feminine aspirants to office in the results of the trial. It will not need many more years of experience before they can take their place as accomplished politicians along with their brothers and husbands, but meantime they had best either walk a bit more softly or let their male relatives manage the trouble some details...
Callous critics have tried to detect the underlying principles and sublime morals in the function. It was for just such as these that Mark Twain prescribed shooting for those that sought a moral in Huckleberry Finn. But no one need heed these defilers of the Freshman's pleasure. Whether it represents the climax of the first year, the matriculation into full-fledged Sophomores, or any of many other symbols, no one very much cares. But everyone will at least agree that the Standish back-yard (or smith Common room, as the Fates decide) has never been graced with more delightful...