Word: needs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time in its history has the Dental School been more prosperous than in 1887-88. Yet it is sadly in need of funds properly to endow its professorships. Several of its instructors now receive no salary what soever...
...summer course of the Botanical Department is well supplying a longfelt need, and the new quarters of this department will render it even more efficient. Owing to the delay of the Park Commissioners in building roads, the Arnold Arboretum was delayed the past summer in its work of planting trees...
...Chemical Laboratory was very full and active in 1887-88. The building was considerably repaired. There is still, however, great need of a large lecture-room. No considerable changes were made at the Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
During the past year the Observatory has been very active, and has had particular success in its photometric and photographic work. The President emphasizes the need of a fire-proof building to contain the unpublished records of observations and the library...
...needs but a perusal of the President's report to assure us that Harvard is in a very prosperous condition. Not only have the numbers of students in the different departments increased, but extensive additions have been made to the University accommodations. The Agassiz and Peabody Museums have been enlarged, a new dormitory built, and the Chemical Laboratory to some extent remodeled. A university such as ours, however, is constantly in need of improvements, and the most important of these have been touched upon in the report just published. Nearly all college endowments are encumbered with stipulations...