Word: needful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obvious that no part of this amount should be applied directly to the House Plan, even though it represents at present an extremely important aspect of the University. Mr. Harkness, it has been reported offered Harvard what was needed to establish the House Plan, and the University has made its estimate. There are far more crying needs in the University than the need for adornments and embellishments of the House Plan. It is even more clear that, with the one possible exception to be named below, not a dollar should be diverted toward the athletic program, which stands...
...football, the Big Business of intercollegiate sports. It is prerequisite with President Lowell's athletic Utopia of one intercollegiate contest a year in each sport. But the necessity for money for an athletic endowment is one to be borne in mind for the future. It is not a vital need of the present...
...believed that the new fellowships in the humanities will meet a definite need of American scholarship, supplementing the opportunities offered by the National Research Council and the Social Science Research Council in other fields," the announcement declared...
Declared the judge to the prisoner-at-the-bar: ''What you need is for me to have you in a two-by-four room. What I would do to you! I'd blacken your eyes and give you some real American spirit and do for you what your parents should have done. . . . We spend billions in this country for schools and what have we educated here-a mongrel and a moron. . . . I have six kiddies myself and my oldest girl is ten. She knows who God is and the laws of the country. Down at my house...
...need American ships and American banks for our foreign trade, our need for an army of trained salesmen and employes is more acute. Following academic education it is, of course, necessary to have practical training. If a man doesn't know his product he is lost, even if he can write as many volumes as Sir Walter Scott. The first necessity for a young man engaged in foreign trade is a knowledge of the particular business in which he is employed. . . . We have seized unfairly the commerce of no people. We have taken no mean advantage of the extremity...