Word: want
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...building of such a club will be a very expensive thing and the graduates will certainly not subscribe unless the undergraduates show that they want it. It seems to me that without doubt we do want it, and that the sooner we point out to the graduates our desire, the better...
...hoped therefore that some means may be found to surmount this difficulty, but after all it is a mere matter of detail. The important point is that the undergraduates want a University Club, and are prepared to do what they can under the guidance of the graduates to get it. It will take time and hard work. Therefore the sooner a beginning be made the better. This particular sum would be a good nest egg, but the money can be obtained from some other source, if all concerned will really get down to work...
...that in college, the instructors sought to give while it was the students' share to take; that the student was treated as a mature man, willing to work for his own pleasure. "We insist," he said, "that you do what you do here, for yourselves, not for us. We want to see every man pushing forward in pursuit of his own distinct interests...
...satisfied with too little from our teams. Our attitude has been too often that of your editorial, when you say of the crew: "All that we have a right to expect of it is for it to make a reasonably good, creditable showing." To be sure, we do want this; but we want more. We have a right to expect, and we do expect, that they will...
...will crate and ship your wheel, or buy if you want to sell...