Word: wants
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...next man was a brawny fellow in a white flannel shirt and knickerbockers. He kept going through gymnastic exercises while in the room, and was evidently an Athlete. He said, "Look here, what we want is a sporting paper. Here is a full report of the last hare and hounds run, with a long list of the men who fell...
...they come from a paper which claims to represent undergraduate opinion. If the Echo continues to be straight-forward and sensible, and if it will avoid personalities and the vulgarity of the Yale Daily News, it will undoubtedly recommend itself to the best class of our students: all will want to read it; but whether all will buy it or not, time alone can determine. Harvard is notoriously inferior to Yale in the support of such interests, and our college pride needs some stronger stimulus than statements about what Yale has accomplished. We sincerely hope that the Echo will receive...
...strive, nor soul-awakening want defy...
...because you can't think how fond I am of you, and because I always read you, although Sophie Basdazure (do you know Sophie?) says your general tone is much inferior to that of the Aggravate. Now, you old duck, I 've a little plan, and I want to tell you all about it. I see poor little things wandering about with lots of books under their arms and a very dazed and unhappy expression of countenance. They tell me they are called sub-Freshmen, - things just like Freshmen, only younger and smaller, and trying very hard to be really...
...want you to print this, like an old dear, because you 're so full of influence and bright ideas and cleverness and things, that everybody minds everything you say, at least the Faculty and the Bursar do. But I must n't chatter. There's that darling Professor Giggles calling me for Domestic Astronomy...