Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this all-important subject. The average man has not very clear ideas of his own on the advisability of the United States entering the League. He takes the word of his party leaders, and is often influenced by personal likes and dislikes. His prejudices once formed, he doesn't want to read arguments or hear speeches to the contrary. But if he can go to a meeting where his own leaders are arrayed against an intelligent opposition, he cannot help hearing facts which will set him thinking for himself...
...undergraduates to the rescue. Among the conclusions that no wise man will fail to draw are that students are after all somewhat interested in the training they get, and that the cruel undergraduate, though he may ride an instructor to death in the classroom, is human enough not to want the poor fellow's children to die in a garret. The last paragraph is perhaps out of place. "At Oxford," said the immortal master of Balliol, "not even the youngest of us is infallible...
...only way to know where nature hath bestowed a good voyce, which guift is so rare, as there is not one among a thousand that hath it:--and in many that excellent guift is lost because they want art to expresse nature...
...step, "I Want to Sleep Until My Daddy Comes Home...
There are many boys in Boston who want nothing so badly as the opportunity to play a game of basketball and form a club: a club with its own officers which can plan its own work and amusements. They need only a leader to direct their energies. There are many older boys and young men who are no longer able to attend school, and yet have only begun to learn. They need some one to guide their reading and conduct classes. Then there is that large number of foreigners, many of whom have been here for years and are still...