Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trying to start elsewhere. Three years ago the active work as started by meetings held on Sunday evenings under the directions of students, and the chief object has been the reconciling of intellectual and moral religion and the leading of a religious life in the university. The workers want the aid of those whom Prof. Drummond calls the "spectators," those who with Mr. Huxley are neither for Christianity nor against it, but are extra-Christians. Their aid is needed, and for them Prof. Drummond makes four terms : First, that he and his friends condemn all undue show of solemnity...
...MOORE, Secretary.Mr. Hayes will be at Holden Chapel tomorrow from 11.30 to 1 to meet students who want to join the classes in elocution...
...midst of liberal ideas tending toward elective studies, there is one matter in which there is no option-the wish of the university that every freshman who enters this week goes forth four years hence better fitted to withstand the allurements of the world. What we all want is the confidence of the students...
...college that the financial concerns of our various athletic associations, and especially of the boat club, are not and have not been managed with sufficient economy and care. The general opinion seems to be not that the management is needlessly or wilfully extravagant, but that the want of economy arises from the careless way in which expenses are incurred and accounts kept. The manager and captain are almost omnipotent in financial arrangements, and the mass of contributors have no opportunity whatever of passing judgment on the measures taken. At the end of the year accounts are audited by a committee...
...system which has come into use. The trouble in the case undoubtedly lies in a lack of that kind of activity which is so requisite in matters of finance. The business of the treasurers of the boat club has become a routine which is vicious on account of its want of susceptibility to new methods. If a thorough overhauling of the manner in which the accounts are kept, and the monies expended should take place, new life and better financiering would undoubtedly follow...