Word: want
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...simply spaces enclosed by palms. The are meant to afford headquarters for those who might wish to come in parties of perhaps twenty, and incidentally to economize chaperones. Six or eight Seniors must make up their party to suit themselves and apply for a box; perhaps sixteen might want two boxes together. Lack of boxes, for such as can not arrange parties, will not detract from their pleasure; the boxes are simply for convenience...
Some of the gentlemen who are opposed to the extension of Class Day over three days do not seem to appreciate the advantages which this arrangement offers to people coming from a distance, to see sons, or nephews or grand-sons graduate. The older folk generally want to stay for Commencement as well as Class Day and under the old regime they are obliged to fill the aching void between Friday and Wednesday as best they can. The three-day scheme, beginning of necessity on Friday, since the finals do not end till then, and lasting through Monday, offers...
People who come to Cambridge in June for the most part want to see the University, and not a mad whirl of muslin, and ice-cream, and ivy-orations. The older people would welcome the change, and shall we say that girls would sicken of us in three short days...
...good team is to be developed, it must be by the aid of a plucky energetic second eleven. A second coach should be secured if possible, and the class must see to it that for the rest of the season, their football prospects shall not suffer for the want of a snappy, efficient scrub team...
...expected of us in addition to giving up explosives, is that we shall not keep up our celebration beyond reasonable hours. On this account the committee of students asks that all demonstrations shall stop at half-past ten o'clock, which certainly gives us all the time that we want...