Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Women do not want and would not use the municipal suffrage.- (a) In Wichita, Kansas, out of thirty-five women qualified to vote, two hundred voted in 1887: Nation, Vol. 44, p. 362.- (b) In Massachusetts in 1886, only one woman in every two hundred and fifty four could be induced to go to the polls to exercise the school suffrage: Bib. Sac. Vol. 50, p. 331.- (c) When woman suffrage was brought before the people in 1894, only one-tenth of the women of Massachusetts expressed their wish to vote...
...Boston Athletic Association has given up its plan of sending a team of athletes to the Olympic games at Athens this year for want of backing among the club members...
...cage has been floored over for the benefit of the Mott Haven team. It is right enough that the Mott Haven team should have a good place in which to practice starting. It is equally true that the prospects of the freshman baseball team should not be injured for want of a place where it may train its men. It, then, the only place available for these two teams is the room in the basement of the Gymnasium, it seems only fair that this room should, if possible, be made to serve both purposes. This is what it has done...
...athletic team, which is certainly unmerited. But whatever may be the reason for it, one thing is plain, it must not continue. The prospects for turning out a good team are excellent, and they must not be dwarfed by a lack of enthusiasm on the part of the students. Want of loyalty to a team must never be charged to Harvard men, whose enthusiasm is not wont to flag even in the face of defeat. The Athletic Association is in need of help, and if Harvard is to have a fair chance in the intercollegiate contest next spring, student interest...
...amount of work at least twice as great as any undergraduate can perform in four years. The amount of instruction on the list may be roughly computed to be about one-eighth of the total amount of instruction offered by Harvard College; but this eighth meets the chief want of the great majority of the students, and the other seven-eighths, although indispensable for an institution with the resources and aims of Harvard College, are really provided at great cost, first to meet the intellectual wants of a comparatively small but precious minority and secondly to meet the higher needs...