Word: yearned
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...shame to let such an excellent custom disappear, especially one in which there is so much to be gained and enjoyed by Harvard men. After all is said and done, there are times when most of us yearn just a little for a touch of that more compactly organized life of the small college--not by any means all of it--but the freer and a little more universal fellowship of those communities which have a different constitution from ours. And the Yard concerts would help to foster this...
...greater gift to Harvard than an increase in the requirements, that will assure once and for all the necessity of a four year course; this to be followed by a change in viewpoint among the powers that be, recognizing the pre-eminent position of Harvard College for which undergraduates yearn...