Word: needful
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...none need suffer with a breaking heart...
...Enviable Mr. Vassar!' and the means of self-delusion employed by the Vassar Senior pining for masculine society. The University Herald, in its excellent hints to its successors, recommends that a few small items be always set up to be ready to complete a column in case of need. We should judge that most of the college periodicals have the above-mentioned stereotyped into permanencies, and introduce them, if need be, on every page of their publications. But we did not start to say this; - we are glad they have found such never-failing well-springs of pleasure." - Vassar "Miscellany...
...country with a kind of complacent disdain. We frequently see in them sharp hits against their plodding contemporaries, for commonplace and awkward expressions, and general lack of brilliancy. Though this criticism is to a large extent just, there is one matter in which our great metropolitan journals need to look to themselves. It is indeed a fault which is exceedingly prevalent in the highest class of our newspapers. I refer to the continual use of certain words and phrases, perhaps rather expressive originally, but which have been fairly worn out by indiscriminate and excessive use on all possible occasions...
...article on "Vacations" has been sent to us. We very much regret want of space prevents its publication in full. The idea contained in it is this: that in the earlier part of our Academic year students are favored with a respite from hard work, when they do not need it nearly as much as at a later period. The short suspension of recitations at Thanksgiving, and the Christmas vacation, are, at least by the undergraduate mind, considered as customs productive of much good. Were it possible to devise some method by which a few days' rest could be given...
...EDITOR: I heartily agree with your contributor upon the main points of his "Religion in Harvard." I need to apologize to you for saying the same things over again, and will urge as my excuse the irony which he employed, and which some seem inclined to take in good earnest. At the same time I hope to add some facts to substantiate his position...