Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...close of Dr. McKenzie's remarks, the soloist of the evening, Mr. G. W. Want, sang Mendelssohn's "If with all Your Hearts...
...health and the comfort of the students, but also for the preservation of the window. The repairs must be made sooner or later and there surely can be no advantage in putting off the job. Is this another aspect of "Harvard Indifference," or is it due to a want of authority? In either case, there should be a remedy...
...idealized world, and yet the reality of the picture he has drawn forces us to the conclusion that he has depicted the life of his own age. Society and state is clearly described by him, but religion is not so clearly defined. In the religion of Homer, all men want gods; the gods are near the men and are easily placable; and men communed with the gods directly in their prayers and sacrifices. There is a change in the conception of the gods in the Odyssey; the conception here is a more elevated...
...eleven, when its management has saved money enough over the expenses to buy them. But on the part of the crew men, such meanness presumptuous; it is a poor return for the readiness with which the football management offered to divide its surplus with them. The foot-ball men want $140 to get a ten-dollar cup for each man on the team and for the substitutes. The request is a modest enough one even if they did not have a cent for buying them. When, however, they have $280, half of which they volunteer to give to the crew...
Lack of enthusiasm-Harvard indifference-has been dinged in our ears for years past as the cause of our athletic defeats. Some men, however, have seen more deeply, and have struck at the real cause both of Harvard's indifference and her want of success. Athletics are free from artificial and injurious restraint, and a vigorous hope of success is taking the place of a growing despair that Harvard would ever again win victory. There is no need to urge earnestness on the part of those trying for the nine or crew, for the spirit...