Word: want
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Their early half, grim want stood at the door...
...city will be crowded with students from twelve colleges, and, to crown all, there will be the magnificent Ball. The least we can do is to go to the Regatta, thanking the Club for their generosity and enterprise, and promising that the fair ladies of Springfield shall not want for partners at the Ball...
...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...
...writer complains of an irregularity in the reception of the periodicals, the English and Boston Sunday papers in particular, and that some of the most interesting papers - the Graphic, Tribune, and others - have been dropped, contrary to the promise of last year that more should be added. A want of funds is alleged as the reason for discontinuing them. Inasmuch as money required for boating and ball matters is forthcoming, it can be inferred that if the same energetic means were taken for this department, immediate assistance would undoubtedly be rendered. "Some men have been called on by the Reading...
...what shall it be? We want one unique...