Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...generous bequest to the University which is now announced is appreciated by all those connected with Harvard. Our art department has long been of high standing in point of learning, but we have suffered greatly for want of a plover museum and appropriate works of art. Professor Norton has devoted many articles to a description of the needs of the University in this direction, and the present gift is due to him in great measure...
...prevented by the expense from making these services permanent or even continuing them as long as we wish, we are endeavoring to introduce into them some of the ordered consecutiveness of regular religious services. At the head of our printed list of hymns stands the following: "Do you want to speak to the clergyman about your personal religious life? Do you want your sick visited? Do you want your sick visited? Do you want your children baptised? Do you want your dead buried with Christian burial? Are you in trouble? Give your name and address to an usher...
...otherwise, in whom the crew can have confidence, and who has shown his ability to handle an eight-oared crew. There are two classes of oarsmen, professional and amateurs, and this instructor must come under one of these heads. Experience has shown in many ways that Harvard does not want anything to do with professionals; they have never done us any good, and no one can judge how much harm. The instructor must then be taken from the ranks of the smateurs, but in glancing over the names of the very limited number of men whom it is possible...
These words came to the prophet in the first great hour of vision. In it he found that God does not want a grovelling spirit in his worshipers. To the old Hebrews God seemed to be invested with all sorts of awful surroundings-vivid sunset colors and fearful thunder-all of which seems strange to us now. Nevertheless our ideas of the Creator are such that the invitation to stand "up on the feet" before Him does not come amiss...
...almost amazed to have to have to admit, certainly does need a great boom at Harvard. Our crews have so long been beaten that the old enthusiastic interest in rowing can only be revived by some unusual display of energy on the part of the rowing men. We want to see these men go to work with a will, get out a great number of candidates and do everything which brains and muscle can suggest, always bearing in mind the motto which the Eleven so well understood, "It's to beat Yale...