Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...list of the books which have disappeared. It has been naturally supposed that students are to account for these disappearances. The suggestion is made that outsiders make free with the books in the library. The Evans Library, we believe, is supposed to be locked; and the students who want to use it are furnished with keys. As a matter of fact, however, the library is open a large part of the time, and any one who wishes may enter. We suggest to the directors that they make an examination of this side of the question...
...held with Yale on May 16. It is all important that the first meeting of this kind should be a success. It cannot fail to be so; but Harvard men can greatly increase this success by their own earnest efforts. The track athletic team is working hard. We want it to feel that in its work the college is at its back, ready to give the most loyal support...
...candidates for the junior class nine have been at work since the end of the recess, and though there is good material, it is crude to say the least. All are especially weak at the bat and show a great want of life and spirit in their play. The following men are trying for positions: McKay, Lake, Hunt, Wrenn, Gray, Lockett, Curtis, Clarke, Chase, Brown, Hyams, Oliver, Allen, Codman, Hollis, Hale, Young, Spalding, and Cummin...
DEAR SIR-We who were intimate friends and admirers of your son Adelbert, want to express to you and your family the deep grief felt by the University on account of his untimely death...
...attributed to the men who hide the reference books. These men-and there are not a few of them-are anxious to take some popular reference book out over night. They therefore adopt the plan of coming to the Library earlier in the day, capturing the book they want and hiding it in some safe place. When the time comes for taking reserved books out, they appear and triumphantly bear away the the missing volume. Some of these men go so far as to sit on a book all the afternoon so as to be sure of having it later...