Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Pierian is in want of good violinists. Any undergraduates who desire to try for admission are requested to see the Director...
...occupy a more honored position than that of being in the way in the Library. There are many more Harvard relics which are but lightly valued in the indifferent hands into which they have fallen, and could therefore be easily secured. These relics are gradually finding their way, for want of such a central collection, into the possession of our old and historical New England families, where they have a value above their cost, and where they will remain as heirlooms long after Harvard has sought for them, if she delay her seeking for a few years more. This centennial...
...This interruption arises neither from lack of enthusiasm in the pupils of Penikese, nor from any want of generous interest in the naturalists who have thus far given their services to aid the enterprise. On the contrary, the second summer at Penikese was, to the surprise of its friends, as striking a success as the first had been, and the lists for the coming year were as crowded as ever. But the pupils at Penikese come from a poorly paid class. However grateful for the privilege of studying at a seaside school of natural history, very few among them...
...been urged that the crews should be provided with shells, in order to accustom themselves to rowing in a racing-boat; but before this want is satisfied, some attention should be given to the needs of those who have paid as much as any one for the support of the clubs, but are not favored by nature with biceps and thighs of power enough to win them a place on the crews...
...Latin, except in those cases - unfortunately too rare - where a student is willing to undertake the reading of considerable Latin by himself. It is hardly a course for those who wish to "keep up their Latin a little," or "who never could do anything with Latin prose, and want to learn...