Word: needing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time, its own money, and its hard work seems unfortunate. Although the Society has done a very fine job, it is by necessity limited to just its own field of concentration. The University, by merely appropriating a more sizable sum to its course catalogue, could perform the same needed service for every department in the College. But until that far-distant date when the University sees the greatness of the need, it would be nice to see the Social Relations Society's plan mushroom into a group of similar projects in other departments...
Goldberg expressed the hope that the Council would undertake some future program to educate students more fully about organizations and charities aided by the Service Fund and to impress students of the need for financial support...
...College veterans who have seen the affects of tuberculosis on entire populations abroad will certainly realize the urgent need of wiping out the disease at home," Miss Brown stated...
...Harvard; $2.50), Igor Stravinsky tried to explain how he does write music. He found it hard to be explicit, but he did succeed in being unromantic. Wrote he: "This appetite [for composing] is not at all a fortuitous thing like inspiration, but as habitual and periodic ... as a natural need." Stravinsky prefers to call himself an inventor rather than a composer. "For the act of invention implies the necessity of a lucky find. ... A composer improvises aimlessly, the way an animal grubs about. . . . I suddenly stumble upon something unexpected. At the proper time, I put it to profitable...
...need for charities is particularly great this year," said Goldberg, "and it is there that will suffer most if our resources fall lower than the necessary $25,000." Several new charities have applied recently for contributions, including the United Negro College Fund, to which Yale students donated $7,000 last year...