Word: want
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...your academic work, Harvard College calls upon you for service. One of the hardest things for a man is to preserve his balance when demands are made upon him. Ask yourself what Harvard College is. It is the result of self-sacrifice for the past 270 years. I particularly want you to remember how your life here is going to affect those at home. All that Harvard University demands of a student is that he be a gentleman in the broadest sense and faithfully perform his College duties...
...want to attend the conference and have not already registered should leave their names at Phillips Brooks House at once, or give them to some member of the committee. The round trip fare from Boston is $3.65. Registration fee for the full time is $5; for part time, 60 cents per day; board for full time is $8.50; for part time, $1 per day; room in hall for full time, is $3; in tent, $1 to $2.50; part time at proportionate rates. A number of men are going to Northfield for the three remaining days after the New London races...
...here today by a score of 3 to 2. In the game, which was extremely rough, Harvard was weakened by the loss of Daniels, whose nose was broken. Both sides played a poor game, owing largely to the bad condition of the field. The Harvard attack was weak, showing want of team play...
Most of the 23 musical numbers, including the incidental music during the farcical football pantomime, have a contagious dash of professional quality. This reaches its climax in the two coon songs, "Toss out a Rose" and "I want a Sporty Man" and in the "Ballet" of the harem...
...Newcomb emphasized the great need for fixed principles in the science of economics, to which one may appeal for support in economic theories just as one appeals to the facts and formulas of physics in arguing its theorems. In the broadest sense economics is a system through which the want of the people are satisfied. Its operation is not governed by blind force, as some people suppose, but by individual with at every stage. Its purpose is the production and distribution of wealth--the transformation of one form of wealth into another until an object is finally produced...