Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sitting reading in my room not long ago, my chum suddenly rushed in, and saluted me with - "Hullo, John, do you want to go to the Insane Asylum...
...nonsense! " said Fred. "Don't you want to go to one of the balls that are given for the people over at Somerville? Quite a party of us are going...
...Angel Gabriel?" I repeated; "why, I want a lady to dance with...
...want a barber's pole...
...however, that '83's behavior was childish, is not enough; it was disgraceful. For any conduct on the part of students is disgraceful that calls forth disapproval of its rowdiness from such professed North-End rowdies as packed the Globe Monday, and draws out a rebuke of their want of self-respect and decency from a low comic actor on the stage. Such conduct not only degrades '83 in the eyes of the other Harvard students, - who they thought would admire it, - but gives the newspapers an opportunity to slander the College as a whole, and creates a wide-spread...