Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...same grade has been paid $2, 000. To clear away this patchwork system a schedule has been made as follows: Professor, adjunct professor, instructor, tutor, assistant. lecturer, curator. The office of lecturer is only temporary, while that of curator, which is entirely new, has been created to fill the want of some scientific man who can give his whole attention to the collections of the college. Hither to it has been the duty of the professor in a department of take care of his collection, and as he has usually had very little time, the duty has devolved upon...
...Irish themselves do not want home rule. a. The Protestants comprising one-third of the population believe in the Union. b. More than half the rest, consisting of boycotters and dynamiters want complete separation...
...recess, did it very awkwardly. A small list of about two hundred names was given to the Faculty, but the larger petition did not reach them until too late for consideration. Naturally, the small petition was not granted. There is, however, still a chance left to get what we want, if a note stating the fact that a mistake was made, and begging that the vote be reconsidered, is presented, along with the greater petition, to the Faculty at the regular meeting next Tuesday. Petitions received before ten o'clock Tuesday morning will be acted upon at that...
...choir sang the following: Magnificat. Ed. A. Clare; Come now and let us reason together, H. W. Wareing; Sing the praises (Recit. and aria) from Mendelssonhn's Hvmu of Praise. Mr. George Want was the soloist...
...want to thank the second eleven in particular. To them are due our greatest thanks as were our Hardest bruises. The lucky 'varsity 13 took their reward out of Yale. Finally I can only say again that nothing but perseverance will keep Harvard in first place where she belongs...