Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...blessing on you, my son," quoth he. "See here, - most interesting. Decameron, Heptameron, Balzac, Brantome, Paul de Kock, Zola, - all, except the Bible; it is enough to know the light, - you want not the lamp...
...within certain limits, as men best fitted to judge should decide. To carry out their excellent purpose the recipients of scholarships are necessary agents. The desire for an education - the first and essential condition of success in its attainment - is often present when the time and means needed are wanting to men best fitted by natural endowment to use such an acquisition to the greatest general good. To such men our donors turn, asking them to aid in extending the beneficent influences of education. "We have means," say they, "you have the natural endowments; together we can accomplish what...
SEVER HALL will contain a lecture-room that will seat about three hundred people. Much want is now felt of such a room...
...been objected to a general system of eleemosynary scholarships, that, under conditions which are found in America, it is impossible to make a fair selection of those who should be encouraged to compete for them. The reasons which prevent business men from confessing their want of success, in order that their boys may try for scholarships, have already been noted. But, putting parents out of the question, it is clear that any practicable tests between minor applicants must be of the roughest and most uncertain kind. A. B., for example, who is able to show that be has no property...
...struggling to avoid bankruptcy, the holder of real estate whose value has sunk below the mortgage, cannot enter the academic confessional and make known their griefs. The adjective poor as applied to those who seek the higher education has only a relative significance, - they are not generally in want of food or shelter. Bearing this in mind, and taking the classes of inherited culture to whom college opportunities especially appeal, it may be questioned whether the poor, who, for good and sufficient reasons, cannot come forward and prove their poverty, do not form the majority...