Word: want
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...stress of public opinion. In previous years freshman classes have known the duties which fell to their lot and have performed them fairly well without any urging; when urged at all their response has been quick and all that could be expected. If the this year's freshmen want their class to stand for anything at all in the college life they must earn the respect of the college. They will certainly never do this so long as they give their class teams such miserable support. Ninety-five must send a good number of supporters to New Haven with...
...have already signed the blue book, but a new book will be left for all who now wish to sign. At 1 o'clock tickets will be sold to all who sign between 9 and 1, and on Friday the remaining tickets will be sold to any who may want them...
...have a good seat rather than in the method of selling the seats. And this difficulty is one not easily obviated. It is a pleasant thing to talk about seeing that every man in college is provided with one seat. But half the men in college don't want to be provided with one seat, they want enough seats to be able to take their friends, and they are just selfish enough to be satisfied with nothing else. Moreover, the responsibility of 'varsity managers is not to the undergraduates alone, but to the graduates. One of the mistakes of this...
...desirable. They add quite a sum to the great amount which Harvard is already giving every year to needy students, and come as an emphasis to the statement made in the catalogue that "good scholars of high character but slender means are very rarely obliged to leave college for want of money...
...understanding that they will be kept an hour, and when they find that they are being kept longer they grow restless and inattentive. The days are crowded so full now with the extra hour thrust in that the most of us have all the lecture room work we want without any additions of the sort described here. Let the bell be rung at one o'clock and at half-past four to remind those instructors who are disposed to run over their time that there are certain limits within which they must keep...