Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...second crews, in the other three boats. The steering of the Holworthy and Weld coxswains was remarkably good, up the course especially, both crews leaving a perfectly straight path behind them, while the wakes of Matthews, and more particularly of Holyoke, showed by their many crooks the excitement and want of practice of the hands that held the tiller-ropes...
...latter was obtained. Then the reading-room would be more inviting and orderly, and more reading would be done, while those who steal papers would be detected. As regards the library, two or three of our larger societies have great numbers of books which are being ruined for want of proper care; if these books were given to the new club, the paid librarian would keep them in order, and additions could be made to supplement the College Library in the most useful way. Rooms might be set apart where whist and chess could be played, and others in which...
...annuals are so close upon us that we want to say a few words in regard to a suggestion which has been made concerning them. If a week could be left just before the beginning of the annuals, the cramming for that dreaded ordeal could be done with more profit as regards marks, and with more safety as regards health, than is possible now. Men will read over the work of the year just before examination, in spite of whatever may be said or done, and they will be forced to "cram" as long as the present system of work...
...Languages, Literature, Constitutional History, and Antiquities," and another on "Greek and Latin Comparative Philology," both of which promise to be very attractive. A new feature of the elective system is introduced in announcing several two-hour electives, with examinations to count as one-hour electives only. This supplies a want long felt. Many Seniors have wished to take one two-hour elective, but the paucity of good single-hour electives until now has forced them to put up with the four regular three-hour courses. With such interesting courses as are offered in the Classics, it is certain that...
...History, Course VI. of 1874-75, "Modern History" (seventeenth century and first half of the eighteenth) is withdrawn until 1876-77; the other courses are like those of the present year. The want of a new elective in History is noticed elsewhere. In Mathematics there are ten courses offered, with some changes in the more advanced. A new elective is given in Physics; Natural History remains unaltered; while the courses in Chemistry, being as nearly perfect as possible, have undergone no particular alteration. Music has an additional elective, and Fine Arts an advanced course on the "Rise and Fall...