Word: needing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There is a great need for large additions to the Text Book Loan Library. Over 500 books were given at this time last year to start the library, and a good deal of use has been made of it; but the collection is very incomplete, and shelves have been built to hold 1500 books. All text and reference books used in College are desired. Magazines and books of fiction will also be received; these will be sent to hospitals and life saving stations...
...fact worthy of note, in these days when the need for college graduates in our industrial life is so often emphasized, that about a fourth of the men in each class that is graduated from Harvard College enter upon a business career. For these men, as well as for the other members of the class, it seems to us that it would be a good plan to invite some man prominent in industry to speak to the Seniors on the demands of the business world on college men today--to tell them what they can do by their own power...
There is little need to urge the fitness of the Union for such a memorial. It is firmly established as an important factor in undergraduate life. There is less need to urge a hearty response to any call for subscriptions which may be made. Every man in the University should be glad to do his small part toward bringing future classes into closer touch with the memory of a man who gave to Harvard the best years of a singularly valuable life, and who won the love as well as the respect of countless undergraduates...
...papers deal with undergraduate interests: Mr. Spencer Ervin's contribution to the department of "Varied Outlooks," and Mr. A. Whitman's clever and engagingly written analysis of the would-be "brilliant amateur." Mr. Ervin's discussion is well balanced and convincing, and reaches the wholesome conclusion that "what we need is more curiosity to see what the man is like and more willingness to help him along if we like him; a greater interest in questions, in questions to see what they mean, and in men to see what they...
...have a live interest in the people and affairs of that world. This has been attained by many writers at various times, but it is prevalent in the Iliad through all the ordinary acts of life. Thus given this fiery intensity of imagination and Homeric style of expression we need not be surprised at the extraordinary greatness of the Iliad...