Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...timid or too fastidious or too careless to do your part in this work, then you forfeit your right to be considered one of the governing and you become one of the governed instead--one of the driven cattle of the political arena. I want you to feel that it is not merely your right to take part in politics, not merely your duty to the state, but that it is demanded by your own self-respect, unless you are content to acknowledge that you are until to govern yourself and have to submit to the rule of somebody else...
...Friday I learned with surprise from your columns of the action of the Sophomore class in regard to wearing class buttons. The Sophomores seem not to have outgrown the state where they want every toy they see their friends playing with. The Senior class buttons, adopted first by the class of 1905, will lose half their value and their full significance, when adopted by other classes. There might be some reason for Juniors to adopt class buttons, after the Seniors begin to wear their caps and gowns on May 1, but for Sophomores it seems absurd. JUNIOR...
During the mid-year and final examinations, it has been the custom at the College Library to allow reserved books to be borrowed from the Reading Room for use overnight, on condition that they be returned by 9 o'clock the next morning. I want to ask those who borrow to take pains to return books promptly, so that other workers may not be deprived of their...
Ever since the earlier history of the Hebrews, said Dr. Abbott, there has always been a belief in the world that a Golden Age would someday manifest itself. The people were reluctant to accept Christ's simple doctrine, mainly because they did not want to. The following years, however, saw the Kingdom of God placed by the impatient people first in the Roman Empire, then in the Church, and even in the monasteries. But corruption and selfishness arose even within the cloistered walls...
...desire also to make sure as far as possible that every first-year student is feeling at home in his College life, and getting what he wants from the University; and I shall be grateful to any one who will show me any way of furthering this desire. The Committee of Advisers will do what it can; but we shall not fully succeed unless the students come and tell us what they want personally...