Word: want
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...management, for more entries because, without them, the meetings will be a failure. This would not be at all true. The meetings will be a success, in any case, the outside athletes who will give exbitions would alone make any athletic meeting a success, but what we want is a success, not so much brought by outsiders as achieved by ourselves...
...Private charity is the best means of furnishing the necessary aid, because (a) it can best ascertain the actual number of those in absolute want, and (b) by exercising a personal and moral influence it tends to strengthen the laborer's self-dependence...
...would attain this longed for period of perfection we must begin by overcoming the difficulties which lie at our feet. We all want to begin at the top of the ladder without climbing up round by round through every obstacle and disappointment until we reach the goal...
...department, entitled "The Glimpse," has been introduced. In explanation of its presence a short editorial says, "College life in all its shifting changes should find some expression, and this department will in a manner satisfy that want." The writer of the present "Glimpse" has satisfied the want of a rather circuitous expression of commendation for the work Mr. Copeland is doing toward the development of the literary side of college life...
...which, even the name branded in scarcely legible letters on the handle, must be painted with the most painful accuracy. For the Impressionist it is the symbol of labor, a mass of shadow against a twilight sky, suggesting peasant toil and suffering. Between these we must decide. We want neither a collection, a conglomeration of geology and botany, nor a vague, indefinite suggestion of a possible truth; it is something between the two which is the true representation of our ideal...