Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Captain, you have another boat, and now I want...
...continue in their present prominent positions as studies: it is the public who are to act as judges; and woe to Latin or Greek, if in her future great struggle for existence, there should be added to her enemies from without, that worse foe than all the rest, - want of harmony among her own pleaders...
ANOTHER society has been added to the long list of Harvard societies: "The Harvard Historical Society." Unlike some others, this society supplies a want felt in the University, and as long as it is not too ambitious in its aims, we offer it our hearty support. The idea of getting such men as Lodge, Von Holst, Adams, and Fiske to lecture on living historical questions deserves much praise, and we hope the students will signify their approval by turning out in full force to the lectures...
...would advise all who can spare the time every second Thursday, between 2 and 5 P.M., to attend the debates in English 6. Much can be learned there, not only by those wishing to become good debaters, but by all who seek that peculiar kind of improvement which, for want of a better name, is called "general culture." Great as the advantage is of listening to the speeches of four well-prepared disputants, it is small in comparison with the advantage of learning sound lessons in tact and acuteness from an instructor who has made these subjects a life study...
...their sections; but is it necessary that all should order of one man, thus establishing a monopoly in the book trade? The students suffer by it, and the number is large of those who go to the city to buy when they hear that they can get what they want there. I think there is plenty of room in Cambridge for another bookstore. If no dealer comes forward to supply the demand for books at better prices, the professors should take the initiative and divide their orders between Mr. Sever and some one else. They have the power to furnish...