Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...face Yale will be in much better condition than the team which was scored against by Cornell or the B. A. A. It is easy to stand by a victorious team which has whitewashed a its opponents - and there is no particular credit attached to such support. What we want to do now is to make ours feel that the University is with it, believes in it, and looks to it to win honors at Springfield. Otherwise, if we are beaten, we shall be largely responsible for the defeat, for we shall have discouraged our men - about the worst thing...
...follow from this practice, the library would be closed earlier on dark days. With all the inconveniences attendant upon getting books at the library this added annoyance of closing it at such an unseasonable hour brings a feeling of mortification to the college. At the hours when men most want to read and have the most time to do so, they are prevented by the closing of the library for lack of means of lighting it. It is unfortunate that last year we were balked in our plans for lights, but an effort and an early effort should be made...
...complete understanding among those engaged in charity work is necessary to justice and mercy. True charity is that which has the least appearance of being so. It is better to teach abrade than to relieve a want; for as the sources of want are eliminated, others will arise. There is no real charity which is not personal. Money is not charity unless it is the expression of the personal interest and feeling of the giver. Professor Peabody described at length the methods pursued in the city of Liverpool and in Germany. It was his opinion that a system similar...
...brilliant. The interference is wretched, and few successful attempts are made at blocking off, while the centre is not what we expect or what we can have with the material at hand. The team does not lack snap or energy to any marked extent, but it is this great want of team work and a too great reliance on a few brilliant individual plays that is one chief fault. Above all, this tendency to shift men about-so deadly characteristic last year-is not a commendable one. Last year there was change after change +++till barely a week before...
This difficulty of accommodating men, this question of cheap room rent is becoming serious. Now is the chance for some benefactor, wishing to do practical service to the college and materially to assist those who are coming year after year, to supply this serious want...