Word: needs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduate students the mere contact with professors who are doing valuable research work may be sufficient stimulus, but an undergraduate feels the need of an interesting presentation from a man who is whole-heartedly devoted to the work of imparting to others the enthusiasm which he feels in his subject. Many of my professors have prefaced their courses with the remark: 'I consider the lectures of this course of little or no value,' and unfortunately the statement has too often proved true...
...first tongue he professes to knew? Such questions of course will not prevent many Freshmen today from proving their reading knowledge of French who never could nor ever will be able to read French, readily, nor will they save many others from wasting a year on German A who need only one mire stiff French course to whip their more stiff French course to whip their oughly workable shape. But of the making of many books there...
...member of an institution-whether it be the family, church, state, party, or college-one must know its origin, history, traditions, and aims. With the growth of Harvard College, a large number of students whose fathers are not Harvard men, and the passing on of older generations, an increasing need has been felt for some effective way of making the history and traditions of the College better known to the incoming students. This need has been met for the first time this year by the apearance of a small booklet on "The History and Traditions of Harvard College" edited...
Father Baldessare, fat, devout and stupid priest, was another to witness the miracle, and urged the Church to saint Annie Spragg. His credulity was rebuked by a more sophisticated churchman, who explained brutally that at the moment the Church had less need for miracles than for money...
Father d'Astier was this intelligent pragmatist, who never would have bothered to explain but for his exasperation that the stupid dolt was his son (illegitimate of course). He himself, suave, charming, had devoted his career to the greater need of the Church, and converted to Catholicism the rich and the powerful...