Word: needful
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...wish to take it, myself,' said Carlin, abruptly. 'You need not fear; I am an old salt...
...First to meet the beast, I need the aid of bier...
...grave mistake not to give to the English language and literature a foremost place in our curriculum, - not to encourage a faithful critical investigation of the common speech of two great Saxon nations. That speech is surely as worthy of attention as is Hebrew or Sanskrit; and its demands need not even interfere with the one end and aim of life, - a thorough knowledge of the noble dialect of Athens...
...College privileges are interlopers. If the Harvard Annex is merely another expression for co-education, as the course they have taken seems to prove, let us have no Annex whatever. There are numerous institutions where women can obtain a university education, Vassar or Smith College for example, and the need of such instruction from Harvard professors is not so urgent but that it can be endured, rather than that the rights of Harvard College should be imposed upon. If we are to have coeducation, let it be announced boldly in the catalogue and the public press...
...Junior Class should have two hours of elective work and six Themes required of its members, in excess of the number of hours allotted to Seniors; and it is therefore a pleasure to learn that the former burden has been removed. Henceforward the work of the Juniors need not exceed twelve hours of recitation a week, with the usual margin of one hour to compensate for any unavoidable irregularity. We are also glad to know that this new regulation is carried into immediate effect; therefore it will now be necessary to specify what courses it is intended to drop...