Word: needs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mathematics have transformed the Freshman year into a vast desert strewed with the horrid skeletons of those who have fallen by the way, there is still one bright little oasis, - classical lectures. There is, however, no need of the contrast to render these lectures so pleasant...
...probably need to be told that there is in ball playing and in boating a general rule which forbids contestants themselves to bet on the result of a game or race in which they are to play or row. This rule is based on what experience has shown to be a fact, viz. that when men bet on themselves, the additional excitement and nervousness interfere with their work; and in proportion to the amount of the bet is the extent of this interference. The more important the match, and the more exciting it is in itself, the more strictly...
...wish to call the attention of all those in any way interested in boating to the pressing need in which the Clubs stand at present, of an increased membership. Many think that they would rather postpone their subscription till next year; but we must remind them that it is very likely that there will be no clubs next year to join. By the arrangements which have been made with Mr. Blakey, and on which the existence of the clubs now hangs, unless about eight more men join each club and pay their money this year, the club-system must...
...complete our training and render us fitted for public life, if called upon, we need such instruction as shall teach us, by examples from present history, to clearly see the relations between cause and effect, between theory and practice, between the fundamental principles we have been learning in history and political economy and the apparently disconnected and eccentric movements of the world to-day. Such instruction would be too wide and comprehensive to be confined within the limits of an elective course. If given this year, it should have enabled us to understand, for instance, the financial crisis through which...
...lectures by her professors, and she has a theatre peculiarly adapted for such purposes. The establishment of a course of fortnightly or monthly lectures on questions of the day by men who devote their lives to the subjects they would be called upon to explain would satisfy an imperative need of our education, and enable Harvard to send forth that constant supply of educated practical men which the country has a right to expect of her, - a right thus far too little regarded...